Isn't the ITAA supposed to register as a foreign
agent under the August 7, 1939 act??
(53 Stat. 1244)

The Indian government is spending a lot of money
over at places like Haley Barbour's firm, both
to expand H1-B and to be allowed to buy nuclear
weapons from the US. I believe that these
activities fall under "22 USC CHAPTER 11 -
FOREIGN AGENTS AND PROPAGANDA".

Oh, I forgot. Under the Bush administration,
if you give them enough money, the Justice
department will decide that it has better things
to do.

How much money _has_ the Indian government given
to US politicians over the last 6 year???
I would be very intereted in a good answer.

I believe there is a law that prevents Congressman from taking money from foreign governments. But I will check into it.
Ephraim

Ephraim, could you please clearly let us know the search criteria you used. 'retry the query' I endup getting everytime...

Okay, to access the lobbying site
the url is http://sopr.senate.gov

Next click on the highlighted link that reads as follows:
Access the US Lobby Report Images for All Years

Next you will see a list of search criteria:
Criteria For Query
Choose one or more of the following criteria to build your query
(Use your Ctrl key to select more than one criteron.)

Registrant Name
Client Name
Lobbyist Name
Amount Reported
Date Posted
Issue Code
Report Type
Government Entity Contacted
Client Country
Client State
Filing Period
Foreign Entity Country
Filing Year

Next - click on one of the choices. If you click on "Client Name" you will get the next page where you can type in the name. Type in, say, Microsoft and see what you get.

Or you can choose Lobbyist name and type in, say, Abramoff and see what you get.

Hope that helps.

Ephraim

This isn't democracy, but bribeocracy. This is not citizen opinion making decisions.

thanks, got it. clientname = 'microsoft' gives me some data.

Why is lobbying legal and allowed?

Why is lobbying legal and allowed the above comment asks.
As far as I know it was meant to give "the people" a more direct voice in the government by allowing them to stay in touch with their elected representatives. But, it has gotten out of hand.
Any historians out there with a more specific explanation?

I think the skil bill is a positive thing. Granting amnesty is not.

I work in IT and i know that at this time my company wants to either have skilled H1 workers here ( no quota!!) or move blocks of IT work to Asia.

By the way with an average growth of over 10% in Asia my company is eagar to move into Asia in a big way.

The US high skilled immigration system needs reform and expansion. Only 16% of immigrants to America are high skilled, of the H1B/EB type. O the other hand, over 80% of Canadian and 60% of UK immigrants are high skilled. I know Australia does a pretty good job of attracting skilled immigrants bu don't recollect the exact numbers. Keep in mind the US economy is 5-10X larger than these countries economies but these are the closet comparators culturally, economically and socially. The problem is that Illegal, low skilled immigration had turned sentiment against ALL immigration.