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  • President Obama ruefully acknowledged at his press conference on March 24 that after 64 days in office, he had yet to "eliminate the influence of lobbyists in Washington." But the question for the president is: Can he actually do so without violating the First Amendment? Not in the way that he has laid out the rules so far, says an unlikely coalition of lobbyist, advocacy, and watchdog groups. They are challenging Obama's new order restricting the way in which registered lobbyists may communicate with the administration, writes Bara Vaida. Constitutional lawyers say precedent isn't clear on the matter.
  • Is Republican lobbyist Ed Rogers becoming the Democratic Party's newest fundraiser? This week, Rogers co-hosted an event for Charles Schumer of New York, the Senate Democratic Conference vice chairman. The affair raised more than $25,000 for the Empire State's senior senator, reports Vaida.
  • Everything may be up to date in Kansas City, Mo., but that hasn't stopped the National Association of Insurance Commissioners from moving its executive offices from there to Washington, says Julie Kosterlitz.
  • Mexican officials say that assault weapons from the United States are fueling their country's bloody drug-cartel war. To help Mexico, says the nonprofit Violence Policy Center, the U.S. government should strictly enforce the 20-year-old federal ban against the importation of assault weapons into this country, writes Peter Stone.
  • Robert Hall is now a senior vice president and the director of international trade and tax policy at Dutko Worldwide. He will focus extensively on the Senate, where he was an aide to then-Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga., from 1987 to 1991, says Sangillo.
  • When Mike Meece departed the Meece Group to become chief of staff to former President George W. Bush in Dallas, co-worker Laura Pemberton decided to leave the lobby shop to launch her own strategic consulting and government-affairs firm. In her earlier career, Pemberton, 38, was a policy adviser for Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., writes Winter Casey.

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