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While we all know it is not unusual for some male lobbyists to lack serious boundaries with female Hill staffers, there is a growing trend among K Streeters that seems to circumvent professionalism…and enraged me enough to delay writing a constituent letter or two, and write this. In the past …

A bill shortly titled “Let Me Google That For You” is about to pass. With h/t to our tipster. S.2206 — Let Me Google That For You Act (Introduced in Senate – IS) 113th CONGRESS IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES A BILL To streamline the collection and distribution …

Tuesday, April 20 Things are heating up. Daily Finance: Goldman Sachs Earnings Double to $3.5 Billion as Firm Faces SEC Suit Embattled Goldman Sachs (GS) said Tuesday that thanks to its trading and investing prowess, its first-quarter profit doubled to $3.5 billion, easily beating analysts’ expectations. Matt Drudge is still …

Ben Pershing’s Player of the Week: The Anonymous Army on Capitol Hill Flip on C-SPAN late at night, and you may well see a lawmaker giving a lengthy and impassioned speech to a largely empty House chamber. But while the room may look deserted, off-camera and behind the scenes there …

Politico:  A coalition of trade groups, educators, companies and researchers want to increase the number of visas available to highly skilled foreign workers. Google spokesman: “We like to hire the most talented U.S.-born workers we can find and the most talented foreign workers we can find and we think that …