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Byline: McKenzie Beard Good morning, and TGIF. With the 118th Congress winding down, what issues do you hope lawmakers will tackle next session? Send thoughts to McKenzie.Beard@washpost.com. Today's edition: Vice [...]

Byline: Leigh Ann Caldwell; Theodoric Meyer; Alec Dent Good morning, Early Birds. The Wall Street crash that kicked off the Great Depression started 95 years ago today. It was also [...]

Byline: Timothy Noah In our $28 trillion economy, $4.2 billion was spent last year on lobbying the federal government. That's less than what Americans spent on underarm deodorant. Yet it's [...]

Byline: Theodoric Meyer; Leigh Ann Caldwell; Alec Dent Good morning, Early Birds. Thank you for all your ice cream recommendations. We now have a lot of ice cream to eat. [...]

Byline: David L. Stern KYIV -- As officials in Washington said $61 billion in desperately needed aid would begin flowing to Ukraine's military, officials and activists in the Ukrainian capital [...]

Byline: Danny Nguyen; Erin Cox; Marissa J. Lang; Jacob Bogage As costly work to unsnarl the ruins of the Francis Scott Key Bridge inched forward Sunday, Maryland leaders pressed Congress [...]

Byline: Cristiano Lima; David DiMolfetta Happy Thursday! Apologies to my college French professor, but a translator was most definitely needed for today's newsletter. Send news tips to: cristiano.lima@washpost.com.Below: The E.U. [...]

Byline: Theodoric Meyer; Leigh Ann Caldwell; Tobi Raji Good morning, Early Birds. Sadly, Rep. Dan Meuser's exit from the speaker's race has ruined jokes comparing the candidates to the nine [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier; Michael Brice-Saddler; Meagan Flynn CORRECTION: In a previous version of this story, Josh Harris was described as working in hedge funds. He is a private equity investor. [...]

Byline: Ovetta Wiggins Maryland Democratic lawmaker Darryl Barnes, who was recently elected to his third term, plans to resign after the legislative session ends this month and join a longtime [...]

Byline: Meagan Flynn; Ellie Silverman House Republicans are preparing for the next round in their perennial boxing match against D.C. home rule, this time targeting D.C.'s police accountability legislation after [...]

Byline: Cat Zakrzewski President Biden's pick to serve as a telecommunications regulator is withdrawing her nomination to the Federal Communications Commission after a bitter 16-month lobbying battle that blocked her [...]

Byline: Meagan Flynn; Michael Brice-Saddler D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser has petitioned Senate leaders to oppose a congressional effort to overturn a pair of D.C. bills as the city braces [...]

Byline: Dan Diamond Early this Sunday morning, Americans will engage in the annual autumnal ritual of 'falling back' -- setting their clocks back one hour to conform with standard time. [...]

Byline: Maxine Joselow; Vanessa Montalbano Good morning and welcome to The Climate 202! As a reminder, the newsletter won't publish on Friday since Congress is out of town. We'll be [...]

Byline: Josh Rogin Shilling for anti-U.S. dictatorships is one of Washington's most time-honored bipartisan traditions. But what if getting paid to lobby for the United States' enemies -- who happen [...]

Byline: Matt Bonesteel; Rick Maese Greg Norman, the chief executive and commissioner of the LIV Golf Invitational Series, will travel to Washington this week to discuss the new organization with [...]

Byline: Editorial Board 'There aren't five senators in this body with any real understanding of how cryptocurrency operates,' Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) said late last year. He said this as [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer Democrats in Michigan plan to ask the national party to make their state the location of the first presidential nominating contest in 2024, challenging the election-year status [...]

Byline: Petula Dvorak She wakes up in a borrowed bedroom in Northeast Washington and gets into a borrowed car every morning, racing against time: Every day the body count in [...]

Byline: E.J. Dionne Jr. Who is really 'soft on crime?' The gun lobby and all who coddle it, particularly those who serve in the U.S. Senate and on the Supreme [...]

Byline: Cat Zakrzewski Seven large tech companies spent nearly $70 million lobbying the U.S. government in 2021 as policymakers from both parties weighed legislation to curtail their power and influence. [...]

Byline: Sara Sadhwani; Pamela Lopez; Christian Grose; Antoine Yoshinaka Stories of lobbying often conjure up images of well-heeled lobbyists roaming the halls of Congress. But as reports of Democratic Sen. [...]

Byline: Mike DeBonis Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr. has fought for months to ensure that his fellow Democrats pump hundreds of billions of federal dollars into new subsidies for home [...]

Byline: Mariana Alfaro When Sen. Shelley Moore Capito's phone rang with a call from an unlisted number, she assumed it was just her fellow senator from West Virginia, Joe Manchin [...]

Byline: Rachel Roubein Good Monday morning -- and welcome to our first Early 202/Health 202 collaboration(!). Below, Pelosi says Democrats are close to a deal on their economic package and [...]

Byline: Theodoric Meyer; Jacqueline Alemany Good morning, Early Birds. Please share your suggestions for what Theo should make with the dozens and dozens of apples he picked the other weekend [...]

Byline: Steven Mufson; Tony Romm The prospect of a $3.5 trillion tax-and-spending bill has sparked a lobbying frenzy in Congress, as lawmakers zero in this week on a measure that [...]

Byline: Editorial Board Many federal agencies, from the Federal Election Commission to the Internal Revenue Service, become embroiled unhelpfully in politics, but none more than the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, [...]

Byline: Paul Waldman So far, the story of what will likely be the most important legislative battle of Joe Biden's presidency -- the sweeping reconciliation bill Democrats hope to pass [...]

Byline: Tony Romm; Yeganeh Torbati Nearly 2,000 companies and organizations have lobbied Congress and the administration this year in an attempt to influence the contours of major new infrastructure spending, [...]

Byline: Vanessa Williams It took all of 13 minutes for Holly Hillhouse to cast her ballot in November at her polling place in Manchester, N.H. But as a social worker, [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer; Jeff Stein; Sean Sullivan The brother and former business partner of a top White House adviser has been hired to lobby Democratic senators to oppose a central [...]

Byline: Paige Winfield Cunningham with Alexandra Ellerbeck The pharmaceutical industry keeps turning up the dial on lobbying, setting massive new spending records in its intensive effort to influence Congress and [...]

Byline: Tony Romm Rep. Donald Payne Jr. has asked the Biden administration to front the cash for a local railway project so many times that one of the president's top [...]

Byline: Olivier Knox with Mariana Alfaro Welcome toThe Daily 202 newsletter! Today, we look at Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin riding to the rescue of another troubled President Biden nominee. But [...]

Byline: Steven Mufson The American Petroleum Institute, the oil and gas industry's top lobbying arm, is edging closer to endorsing a carbon tax, a tool that would make fossil fuels [...]

Byline: Tony Romm Amazon, Facebook, Google and four other top technology giants spent more than $65 million to lobby the U.S. government last year, shelling out record-breaking amounts in some [...]

Byline: Reed Albergotti Apple lobbyists are trying to weaken a bill aimed at preventing forced labor in China, according to two congressional staffers familiar with the matter, highlighting the clash [...]

Byline: Dino Grandoni with Alexandra Ellerbeck Want more emails like this? Sign up for The Energy 202 newsletter. Let the lobbying begin. Not every Republican lawmaker has publicly acknowledged that [...]

Byline: Paul Waldman When either party is out of power, it maintains what you might call an administration-in-waiting, spread out over Capitol Hill, think tanks, advocacy groups and lobbying firms. [...]

Byline: Aaron Gregg;Douglas MacMillan As the coronavirus spiraled into a public health crisis this spring, the nation's largest business lobby identified a critical goal: making sure businesses don't face legal [...]

Byline: Tony Romm Ten years ago, Google executives rarely spoke to Congress. Amazon employed just two of its own registered lobbyists in Washington. And Facebook had only recently graduated to [...]

Byline: Aaron Gregg;Anu Narayanswamy A Kuwait-based company soon to be responsible for feeding thousands of U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria has become embroiled in a legal and political crisis [...]

Byline: Hailey Fuchs;Michelle Ye Hee Lee Among New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker's donors to his presidential campaign is a vice president of a leading pharmaceutical company. The senior vice president [...]

Byline: Dino Grandoni;Steven Mufson When the chief executive of General Motors came to Washington earlier this month, she huddled with a handful of her best allies in Congress: the Michigan [...]

Byline: Philip Bump Tommy Fisher runs a construction company called Fisher Industries. Fisher believes that he and his company have build a better mousetrap -- or, more accurately, a better [...]

Byline: Jeff SteinDaniel Meyer, a lobbyist for Pfizer, Major League Baseball, BP, Bank of New York Mellon, and more than a dozen other large corporations, had an hour last week [...]

Byline: Jeff SteinThe talk was not billed as being about politics. 'A Discussion with Business Leaders,' hosted on Harvard's campus earlier this week for freshman lawmakers elected in 2018, featured [...]

Byline: Ben Freeman Ben Freeman is the director and founder of the Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative at the Center for International Policy. Before the horrific murder of Jamal Khashoggi in [...]