There has been a lot of talk on K street about how President-elect Obama may use his 13 million-strong grassroots network to promote policy. National Journal's Corine Hegland takes an in-depth look at how the network may be deployed to bolster his administration in this week's issue of National Journal. (subscription only)

In other magazine stories this week, Peter Stone writes about labor and business teaming up to push Congress to spend on infrastructure projects.

In our K street Corridor section, we highlight how the League of Conservation Voters and labor groups are jointly sponsoring an advertising push for increased spending on "green" public sector jobs. We also feature a local firm, LDAFile, which aims to help lobbyists file their lobbying disclosure forms with Congress.