review online. charles lane, idtorial writer. david rucker, reporter for roll call. what he is saying, whoa about is the president said he wouldn t raise money from lobbyists but it turns out he is raising money from people who are not registered as lobbyists. but are in the lobbying business. a fine distinction some of the occupy wall street people may not have appreciated. what is going on here? the president is failing to live up to the standard. he never needed to say. nobody in washington believed that you can do anything in the town without lobbyists. that is because usually a lobbyist is somebody who started out as a hill staffer. somebody who worked for a congressman or a snarl. or member of congress in many cases. yeah. they learn of a particular, i. the vast number are not former members but the numbers we hear about. they learn a particular issue, whether it was environmental issues, labor issues, business
his wife, he helped set him up in a lobbying business. doug hampton began lobbying, lobbied hansen personally, and his state of in violation of a law that says you can t lobby within one year after leaving government service. he s currently under indictment, and that was something john ensign had a lot of problems to face as well. i would have loved to have seen that conversation with his parents. mom and dad, i ve got a story to tell you, i m going to need $96,000. so let s talk real quickly about what s going to happen in nevada next. sharron angle is somehow in this mix. tell us about that. sharron angle may be john ensign s final parting gift. after his senate seat is vacant, the governor has to appoint something. so is dean heller, who had declared his intention to run for that seat. that means dean heller s congressional seat is open. that needs to be filled by a
executives, in nevada, and, he helped him set up a lobbying business and told executives if they wanted to talk to him about something they should hire doug hampton. gregg: did hampton ever lobby. he did in fact lobby mr. ensign and there was a meeting with him and the head of i believe someone at the legent air at the senate dining room and there are documents to support this and gregg: why didn t the feds indict. why do you think they didn t go after him, if you say the evidence was there? the departments of justice has been really weak-northeasted since the debacle of the prosecution of ted stevens which they botched badly a couple of years ago, the former senator, now deceased from alaska and because of that the public integrity section has refused to take on politician be a bad court decisions have impacted the department of justice s decisions but this particular issue wouldn t have involved any of those bad cases and they had
jobs went away. the region 12.8 january unemployment rate is at a 20-year high. the local economist says the $653 million in federal stimulus money distributed locally helped prevent a bad situation from getting worse but cautions money from washington is not the cure. critics argue stimulus funding is economic band aid for a badly hurting community. the company is now planning a $100 million expansion. and the addition of nearly 300 new jobs. in charlotte, north carolina, david lee miller, fox news. chris: one industry that is doing fine these days is the lobbying business. that is despite promises from president obama to change the
since the downturn, 62,000 jobs went away. the region 12.8 january unemployment rate is at a 20-year high. the local economist says the $653 million in federal stimulus money distributed locally helped prevent a bad situation from getting worse but cautions money from washington is not the cure. critics argue stimulus funding is economic band aid for a badly hurting community. the company is now planning a $100 million expansion. and the addition of nearly 300 new jobs. in charlotte, north carolina, david lee miller, fox news. chris: one industry that is doing fine these days is the lobbying business. that is despite promises from