lobbying

Efforts to slow WA’s revolving door from state service to lobbying have been thwarted in recent years. That makes the state an outlier in not requiring a cooling off period. So how much does this happen?

Strong opposition and intense lobbying by Washington’s health insurance industry has resulted in a key change to a consumer-oriented measure designed to address rising premium costs.

The unlikely union started with a tweet from the democratic socialist congresswoman, to which the conservative senator replied, "Here's something I don't say often: on this point, I AGREE."