Time is Money: Some Lobbyists Take Their Time Disclosing Clients

According to the Capital Eye (“a money-in-politics newsletter by the Center for Responsive Politics”), for some lobbyists on Washington’s K Street, the notion that time is money doesn’t necessarily apply to timely disclosure of their work. Whether they’re still trying to learn how to electronically file their required disclosure reports or define what constitutes lobbying activity, lobby shops big and small are sometimes guilty of being slow to report publicly when they have signed a new client—at times taking more than three years after the deadline to register them with the federal government.

Capital Eye references the lobbying database Open Secrets. We refer you also to ALM Media’s online lobbying database, LobbySearch, a service of Influence, which is all about “the business of lobbying.”