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As Silicon Valley vies to produce ever-more-powerful models, proponents of AI safety, including Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, have cautioned that depending only on self-regulation may have catastrophic societal repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans who are advocating for the proposal's inclusion are looking into whether it conforms with the Senate's intricate regulations, which stipulate that each clause in a \"budget reconciliation\" package must have an effect on the budget. This strategy is being used by the party to pass the law without the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Big tech lobbies to block state AI laws for 10 years","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"big-tech-lobbies-to-block-state-ai-laws-for-10-years","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8076","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":4},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
During a Senate hearing last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that it would be \"catastrophic\" for the US to mandate that tech firms achieve specific standards, such safety and transparency, before launching their products. With the EU's new AI Act, this could soon be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Silicon Valley vies to produce ever-more-powerful models, proponents of AI safety, including Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, have cautioned that depending only on self-regulation may have catastrophic societal repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans who are advocating for the proposal's inclusion are looking into whether it conforms with the Senate's intricate regulations, which stipulate that each clause in a \"budget reconciliation\" package must have an effect on the budget. This strategy is being used by the party to pass the law without the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Big tech lobbies to block state AI laws for 10 years","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"big-tech-lobbies-to-block-state-ai-laws-for-10-years","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8076","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":4},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Proponents contend that the clause is required to avoid a patchwork of uneven regional regulations that may hinder innovation and push the US farther behind China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a Senate hearing last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that it would be \"catastrophic\" for the US to mandate that tech firms achieve specific standards, such safety and transparency, before launching their products. With the EU's new AI Act, this could soon be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Silicon Valley vies to produce ever-more-powerful models, proponents of AI safety, including Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, have cautioned that depending only on self-regulation may have catastrophic societal repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans who are advocating for the proposal's inclusion are looking into whether it conforms with the Senate's intricate regulations, which stipulate that each clause in a \"budget reconciliation\" package must have an effect on the budget. This strategy is being used by the party to pass the law without the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Big tech lobbies to block state AI laws for 10 years","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"big-tech-lobbies-to-block-state-ai-laws-for-10-years","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8076","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":4},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Republican legislators and the technology industry are also divided over the planned ban, with some voicing worries about preventing states from monitoring strong technologies that may damage the economy and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proponents contend that the clause is required to avoid a patchwork of uneven regional regulations that may hinder innovation and push the US farther behind China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a Senate hearing last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that it would be \"catastrophic\" for the US to mandate that tech firms achieve specific standards, such safety and transparency, before launching their products. With the EU's new AI Act, this could soon be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Silicon Valley vies to produce ever-more-powerful models, proponents of AI safety, including Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, have cautioned that depending only on self-regulation may have catastrophic societal repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans who are advocating for the proposal's inclusion are looking into whether it conforms with the Senate's intricate regulations, which stipulate that each clause in a \"budget reconciliation\" package must have an effect on the budget. This strategy is being used by the party to pass the law without the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Big tech lobbies to block state AI laws for 10 years","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"big-tech-lobbies-to-block-state-ai-laws-for-10-years","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8076","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":4},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Big tech corporations' position, according to critics, is aimed at maintaining their lead in the competition to create artificial general intelligence, which is defined as models that are generally more intelligent than humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republican legislators and the technology industry are also divided over the planned ban, with some voicing worries about preventing states from monitoring strong technologies that may damage the economy and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proponents contend that the clause is required to avoid a patchwork of uneven regional regulations that may hinder innovation and push the US farther behind China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a Senate hearing last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that it would be \"catastrophic\" for the US to mandate that tech firms achieve specific standards, such safety and transparency, before launching their products. With the EU's new AI Act, this could soon be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Silicon Valley vies to produce ever-more-powerful models, proponents of AI safety, including Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, have cautioned that depending only on self-regulation may have catastrophic societal repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans who are advocating for the proposal's inclusion are looking into whether it conforms with the Senate's intricate regulations, which stipulate that each clause in a \"budget reconciliation\" package must have an effect on the budget. This strategy is being used by the party to pass the law without the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Big tech lobbies to block state AI laws for 10 years","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"big-tech-lobbies-to-block-state-ai-laws-for-10-years","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8076","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":4},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Big tech corporations' position, according to critics, is aimed at maintaining their lead in the competition to create artificial general intelligence, which is defined as models that are generally more intelligent than humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republican legislators and the technology industry are also divided over the planned ban, with some voicing worries about preventing states from monitoring strong technologies that may damage the economy and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proponents contend that the clause is required to avoid a patchwork of uneven regional regulations that may hinder innovation and push the US farther behind China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a Senate hearing last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that it would be \"catastrophic\" for the US to mandate that tech firms achieve specific standards, such safety and transparency, before launching their products. With the EU's new AI Act, this could soon be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Silicon Valley vies to produce ever-more-powerful models, proponents of AI safety, including Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, have cautioned that depending only on self-regulation may have catastrophic societal repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans who are advocating for the proposal's inclusion are looking into whether it conforms with the Senate's intricate regulations, which stipulate that each clause in a \"budget reconciliation\" package must have an effect on the budget. This strategy is being used by the party to pass the law without the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Big tech lobbies to block state AI laws for 10 years","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"big-tech-lobbies-to-block-state-ai-laws-for-10-years","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8076","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":4},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
The AI Competition Center (AICC) was founded in 2024 by the industrial association INCOMPAS to influence lawmakers and authorities. As discussions over AI regulations heated up and the EU implemented a number of steps to regulate the industry, Amazon's cloud business and Meta joined the AICC subgroup earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Big tech corporations' position, according to critics, is aimed at maintaining their lead in the competition to create artificial general intelligence, which is defined as models that are generally more intelligent than humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republican legislators and the technology industry are also divided over the planned ban, with some voicing worries about preventing states from monitoring strong technologies that may damage the economy and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proponents contend that the clause is required to avoid a patchwork of uneven regional regulations that may hinder innovation and push the US farther behind China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a Senate hearing last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that it would be \"catastrophic\" for the US to mandate that tech firms achieve specific standards, such safety and transparency, before launching their products. With the EU's new AI Act, this could soon be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Silicon Valley vies to produce ever-more-powerful models, proponents of AI safety, including Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, have cautioned that depending only on self-regulation may have catastrophic societal repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans who are advocating for the proposal's inclusion are looking into whether it conforms with the Senate's intricate regulations, which stipulate that each clause in a \"budget reconciliation\" package must have an effect on the budget. This strategy is being used by the party to pass the law without the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Big tech lobbies to block state AI laws for 10 years","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"big-tech-lobbies-to-block-state-ai-laws-for-10-years","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8076","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":4},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\"However, in terms of competition with China, it is equally important.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The AI Competition Center (AICC) was founded in 2024 by the industrial association INCOMPAS to influence lawmakers and authorities. As discussions over AI regulations heated up and the EU implemented a number of steps to regulate the industry, Amazon's cloud business and Meta joined the AICC subgroup earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Big tech corporations' position, according to critics, is aimed at maintaining their lead in the competition to create artificial general intelligence, which is defined as models that are generally more intelligent than humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republican legislators and the technology industry are also divided over the planned ban, with some voicing worries about preventing states from monitoring strong technologies that may damage the economy and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proponents contend that the clause is required to avoid a patchwork of uneven regional regulations that may hinder innovation and push the US farther behind China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a Senate hearing last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that it would be \"catastrophic\" for the US to mandate that tech firms achieve specific standards, such safety and transparency, before launching their products. With the EU's new AI Act, this could soon be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Silicon Valley vies to produce ever-more-powerful models, proponents of AI safety, including Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, have cautioned that depending only on self-regulation may have catastrophic societal repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans who are advocating for the proposal's inclusion are looking into whether it conforms with the Senate's intricate regulations, which stipulate that each clause in a \"budget reconciliation\" package must have an effect on the budget. This strategy is being used by the party to pass the law without the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Big tech lobbies to block state AI laws for 10 years","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"big-tech-lobbies-to-block-state-ai-laws-for-10-years","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8076","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":4},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\n\"However, in terms of competition with China, it is equally important.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The AI Competition Center (AICC) was founded in 2024 by the industrial association INCOMPAS to influence lawmakers and authorities. As discussions over AI regulations heated up and the EU implemented a number of steps to regulate the industry, Amazon's cloud business and Meta joined the AICC subgroup earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What are critics saying about Big Tech lobbying?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Big tech corporations' position, according to critics, is aimed at maintaining their lead in the competition to create artificial general intelligence, which is defined as models that are generally more intelligent than humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republican legislators and the technology industry are also divided over the planned ban, with some voicing worries about preventing states from monitoring strong technologies that may damage the economy and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proponents contend that the clause is required to avoid a patchwork of uneven regional regulations that may hinder innovation and push the US farther behind China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a Senate hearing last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that it would be \"catastrophic\" for the US to mandate that tech firms achieve specific standards, such safety and transparency, before launching their products. With the EU's new AI Act, this could soon be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Silicon Valley vies to produce ever-more-powerful models, proponents of AI safety, including Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, have cautioned that depending only on self-regulation may have catastrophic societal repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans who are advocating for the proposal's inclusion are looking into whether it conforms with the Senate's intricate regulations, which stipulate that each clause in a \"budget reconciliation\" package must have an effect on the budget. This strategy is being used by the party to pass the law without the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Big tech lobbies to block state AI laws for 10 years","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"big-tech-lobbies-to-block-state-ai-laws-for-10-years","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8076","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":4},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\nPickering told the Financial Times (FT). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"However, in terms of competition with China, it is equally important.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The AI Competition Center (AICC) was founded in 2024 by the industrial association INCOMPAS to influence lawmakers and authorities. As discussions over AI regulations heated up and the EU implemented a number of steps to regulate the industry, Amazon's cloud business and Meta joined the AICC subgroup earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What are critics saying about Big Tech lobbying?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Big tech corporations' position, according to critics, is aimed at maintaining their lead in the competition to create artificial general intelligence, which is defined as models that are generally more intelligent than humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republican legislators and the technology industry are also divided over the planned ban, with some voicing worries about preventing states from monitoring strong technologies that may damage the economy and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proponents contend that the clause is required to avoid a patchwork of uneven regional regulations that may hinder innovation and push the US farther behind China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a Senate hearing last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that it would be \"catastrophic\" for the US to mandate that tech firms achieve specific standards, such safety and transparency, before launching their products. With the EU's new AI Act, this could soon be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Silicon Valley vies to produce ever-more-powerful models, proponents of AI safety, including Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, have cautioned that depending only on self-regulation may have catastrophic societal repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans who are advocating for the proposal's inclusion are looking into whether it conforms with the Senate's intricate regulations, which stipulate that each clause in a \"budget reconciliation\" package must have an effect on the budget. This strategy is being used by the party to pass the law without the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Big tech lobbies to block state AI laws for 10 years","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"big-tech-lobbies-to-block-state-ai-laws-for-10-years","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8076","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":4},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\n\"For American leadership, this is the right policy at the right time,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Pickering told the Financial Times (FT). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"However, in terms of competition with China, it is equally important.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The AI Competition Center (AICC) was founded in 2024 by the industrial association INCOMPAS to influence lawmakers and authorities. As discussions over AI regulations heated up and the EU implemented a number of steps to regulate the industry, Amazon's cloud business and Meta joined the AICC subgroup earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What are critics saying about Big Tech lobbying?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Big tech corporations' position, according to critics, is aimed at maintaining their lead in the competition to create artificial general intelligence, which is defined as models that are generally more intelligent than humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republican legislators and the technology industry are also divided over the planned ban, with some voicing worries about preventing states from monitoring strong technologies that may damage the economy and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proponents contend that the clause is required to avoid a patchwork of uneven regional regulations that may hinder innovation and push the US farther behind China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a Senate hearing last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that it would be \"catastrophic\" for the US to mandate that tech firms achieve specific standards, such safety and transparency, before launching their products. With the EU's new AI Act, this could soon be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Silicon Valley vies to produce ever-more-powerful models, proponents of AI safety, including Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, have cautioned that depending only on self-regulation may have catastrophic societal repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans who are advocating for the proposal's inclusion are looking into whether it conforms with the Senate's intricate regulations, which stipulate that each clause in a \"budget reconciliation\" package must have an effect on the budget. This strategy is being used by the party to pass the law without the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Big tech lobbies to block state AI laws for 10 years","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"big-tech-lobbies-to-block-state-ai-laws-for-10-years","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8076","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":4},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\n\n\"For American leadership, this is the right policy at the right time,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Pickering told the Financial Times (FT). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"However, in terms of competition with China, it is equally important.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The AI Competition Center (AICC) was founded in 2024 by the industrial association INCOMPAS to influence lawmakers and authorities. As discussions over AI regulations heated up and the EU implemented a number of steps to regulate the industry, Amazon's cloud business and Meta joined the AICC subgroup earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What are critics saying about Big Tech lobbying?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Big tech corporations' position, according to critics, is aimed at maintaining their lead in the competition to create artificial general intelligence, which is defined as models that are generally more intelligent than humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republican legislators and the technology industry are also divided over the planned ban, with some voicing worries about preventing states from monitoring strong technologies that may damage the economy and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proponents contend that the clause is required to avoid a patchwork of uneven regional regulations that may hinder innovation and push the US farther behind China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a Senate hearing last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that it would be \"catastrophic\" for the US to mandate that tech firms achieve specific standards, such safety and transparency, before launching their products. With the EU's new AI Act, this could soon be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Silicon Valley vies to produce ever-more-powerful models, proponents of AI safety, including Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, have cautioned that depending only on self-regulation may have catastrophic societal repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans who are advocating for the proposal's inclusion are looking into whether it conforms with the Senate's intricate regulations, which stipulate that each clause in a \"budget reconciliation\" package must have an effect on the budget. This strategy is being used by the party to pass the law without the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Big tech lobbies to block state AI laws for 10 years","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"big-tech-lobbies-to-block-state-ai-laws-for-10-years","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8076","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":4},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\nOn behalf of the members of the technological trade group, which include major corporations like Microsoft<\/a>, Amazon, Meta, and Google as well as smaller data<\/a>, energy, and infrastructure enterprises and legal firms, Chip Pickering, a former congressman and the CEO of INCOMPAS, is promoting this plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"For American leadership, this is the right policy at the right time,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Pickering told the Financial Times (FT). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"However, in terms of competition with China, it is equally important.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The AI Competition Center (AICC) was founded in 2024 by the industrial association INCOMPAS to influence lawmakers and authorities. As discussions over AI regulations heated up and the EU implemented a number of steps to regulate the industry, Amazon's cloud business and Meta joined the AICC subgroup earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What are critics saying about Big Tech lobbying?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Big tech corporations' position, according to critics, is aimed at maintaining their lead in the competition to create artificial general intelligence, which is defined as models that are generally more intelligent than humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republican legislators and the technology industry are also divided over the planned ban, with some voicing worries about preventing states from monitoring strong technologies that may damage the economy and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proponents contend that the clause is required to avoid a patchwork of uneven regional regulations that may hinder innovation and push the US farther behind China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a Senate hearing last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that it would be \"catastrophic\" for the US to mandate that tech firms achieve specific standards, such safety and transparency, before launching their products. With the EU's new AI Act, this could soon be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Silicon Valley vies to produce ever-more-powerful models, proponents of AI safety, including Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, have cautioned that depending only on self-regulation may have catastrophic societal repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans who are advocating for the proposal's inclusion are looking into whether it conforms with the Senate's intricate regulations, which stipulate that each clause in a \"budget reconciliation\" package must have an effect on the budget. This strategy is being used by the party to pass the law without the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Big tech lobbies to block state AI laws for 10 years","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"big-tech-lobbies-to-block-state-ai-laws-for-10-years","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8076","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":4},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\nLast month, the US House of Representatives approved President Donald Trump's \"big and beautiful\" budget package, which included this clause. In order to approve the law before July 4, the Senate plans to unveil its own version this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On behalf of the members of the technological trade group, which include major corporations like Microsoft<\/a>, Amazon, Meta, and Google as well as smaller data<\/a>, energy, and infrastructure enterprises and legal firms, Chip Pickering, a former congressman and the CEO of INCOMPAS, is promoting this plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"For American leadership, this is the right policy at the right time,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Pickering told the Financial Times (FT). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"However, in terms of competition with China, it is equally important.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The AI Competition Center (AICC) was founded in 2024 by the industrial association INCOMPAS to influence lawmakers and authorities. As discussions over AI regulations heated up and the EU implemented a number of steps to regulate the industry, Amazon's cloud business and Meta joined the AICC subgroup earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What are critics saying about Big Tech lobbying?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Big tech corporations' position, according to critics, is aimed at maintaining their lead in the competition to create artificial general intelligence, which is defined as models that are generally more intelligent than humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republican legislators and the technology industry are also divided over the planned ban, with some voicing worries about preventing states from monitoring strong technologies that may damage the economy and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proponents contend that the clause is required to avoid a patchwork of uneven regional regulations that may hinder innovation and push the US farther behind China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a Senate hearing last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that it would be \"catastrophic\" for the US to mandate that tech firms achieve specific standards, such safety and transparency, before launching their products. With the EU's new AI Act, this could soon be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Silicon Valley vies to produce ever-more-powerful models, proponents of AI safety, including Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, have cautioned that depending only on self-regulation may have catastrophic societal repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans who are advocating for the proposal's inclusion are looking into whether it conforms with the Senate's intricate regulations, which stipulate that each clause in a \"budget reconciliation\" package must have an effect on the budget. This strategy is being used by the party to pass the law without the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Big tech lobbies to block state AI laws for 10 years","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"big-tech-lobbies-to-block-state-ai-laws-for-10-years","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8076","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":4},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\nMajor tech firms are supporting a lobbying effort <\/a>to ban US states from regulating AI models for ten years, a contentious move that has split the AI community and Donald Trump's Republican party. The Senate is being asked by lobbyists representing Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta to prevent states from passing their own artificial intelligence-related legislation for ten years, according to people with knowledge of the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last month, the US House of Representatives approved President Donald Trump's \"big and beautiful\" budget package, which included this clause. In order to approve the law before July 4, the Senate plans to unveil its own version this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On behalf of the members of the technological trade group, which include major corporations like Microsoft<\/a>, Amazon, Meta, and Google as well as smaller data<\/a>, energy, and infrastructure enterprises and legal firms, Chip Pickering, a former congressman and the CEO of INCOMPAS, is promoting this plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"For American leadership, this is the right policy at the right time,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Pickering told the Financial Times (FT). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"However, in terms of competition with China, it is equally important.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The AI Competition Center (AICC) was founded in 2024 by the industrial association INCOMPAS to influence lawmakers and authorities. As discussions over AI regulations heated up and the EU implemented a number of steps to regulate the industry, Amazon's cloud business and Meta joined the AICC subgroup earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What are critics saying about Big Tech lobbying?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Big tech corporations' position, according to critics, is aimed at maintaining their lead in the competition to create artificial general intelligence, which is defined as models that are generally more intelligent than humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republican legislators and the technology industry are also divided over the planned ban, with some voicing worries about preventing states from monitoring strong technologies that may damage the economy and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proponents contend that the clause is required to avoid a patchwork of uneven regional regulations that may hinder innovation and push the US farther behind China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a Senate hearing last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that it would be \"catastrophic\" for the US to mandate that tech firms achieve specific standards, such safety and transparency, before launching their products. With the EU's new AI Act, this could soon be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Silicon Valley vies to produce ever-more-powerful models, proponents of AI safety, including Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, have cautioned that depending only on self-regulation may have catastrophic societal repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans who are advocating for the proposal's inclusion are looking into whether it conforms with the Senate's intricate regulations, which stipulate that each clause in a \"budget reconciliation\" package must have an effect on the budget. This strategy is being used by the party to pass the law without the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Big tech lobbies to block state AI laws for 10 years","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"big-tech-lobbies-to-block-state-ai-laws-for-10-years","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8076","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":4},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\nSince the start of their mandate in June of last year, 90 MEPs, primarily from the hard-right European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), the non-attached, and the far-right European Sovereign Nations (ESN) party, have failed to announce a single meeting.<\/p>\n","post_title":"New data shows defence sector ramping up lobbying efforts in EU Parliament","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"new-data-shows-defence-sector-ramping-up-lobbying-efforts-in-eu-parliament","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8083","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":8076,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_content":"\n
Major tech firms are supporting a lobbying effort <\/a>to ban US states from regulating AI models for ten years, a contentious move that has split the AI community and Donald Trump's Republican party. The Senate is being asked by lobbyists representing Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta to prevent states from passing their own artificial intelligence-related legislation for ten years, according to people with knowledge of the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last month, the US House of Representatives approved President Donald Trump's \"big and beautiful\" budget package, which included this clause. In order to approve the law before July 4, the Senate plans to unveil its own version this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On behalf of the members of the technological trade group, which include major corporations like Microsoft<\/a>, Amazon, Meta, and Google as well as smaller data<\/a>, energy, and infrastructure enterprises and legal firms, Chip Pickering, a former congressman and the CEO of INCOMPAS, is promoting this plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"For American leadership, this is the right policy at the right time,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Pickering told the Financial Times (FT). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"However, in terms of competition with China, it is equally important.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The AI Competition Center (AICC) was founded in 2024 by the industrial association INCOMPAS to influence lawmakers and authorities. As discussions over AI regulations heated up and the EU implemented a number of steps to regulate the industry, Amazon's cloud business and Meta joined the AICC subgroup earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What are critics saying about Big Tech lobbying?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Big tech corporations' position, according to critics, is aimed at maintaining their lead in the competition to create artificial general intelligence, which is defined as models that are generally more intelligent than humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republican legislators and the technology industry are also divided over the planned ban, with some voicing worries about preventing states from monitoring strong technologies that may damage the economy and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proponents contend that the clause is required to avoid a patchwork of uneven regional regulations that may hinder innovation and push the US farther behind China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a Senate hearing last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that it would be \"catastrophic\" for the US to mandate that tech firms achieve specific standards, such safety and transparency, before launching their products. With the EU's new AI Act, this could soon be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Silicon Valley vies to produce ever-more-powerful models, proponents of AI safety, including Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, have cautioned that depending only on self-regulation may have catastrophic societal repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans who are advocating for the proposal's inclusion are looking into whether it conforms with the Senate's intricate regulations, which stipulate that each clause in a \"budget reconciliation\" package must have an effect on the budget. This strategy is being used by the party to pass the law without the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Big tech lobbies to block state AI laws for 10 years","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"big-tech-lobbies-to-block-state-ai-laws-for-10-years","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8076","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":4},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\nParliament revised its regulations in September 2023 to include all MEPs and their helpers in the transparency standards. This may help to explain the rise in the number of meetings, as they are required to disclose the specifics of each planned meeting with lobbyists. However, it also makes room for unofficial meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the start of their mandate in June of last year, 90 MEPs, primarily from the hard-right European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), the non-attached, and the far-right European Sovereign Nations (ESN) party, have failed to announce a single meeting.<\/p>\n","post_title":"New data shows defence sector ramping up lobbying efforts in EU Parliament","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"new-data-shows-defence-sector-ramping-up-lobbying-efforts-in-eu-parliament","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8083","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":8076,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_content":"\n
Major tech firms are supporting a lobbying effort <\/a>to ban US states from regulating AI models for ten years, a contentious move that has split the AI community and Donald Trump's Republican party. The Senate is being asked by lobbyists representing Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta to prevent states from passing their own artificial intelligence-related legislation for ten years, according to people with knowledge of the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last month, the US House of Representatives approved President Donald Trump's \"big and beautiful\" budget package, which included this clause. In order to approve the law before July 4, the Senate plans to unveil its own version this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On behalf of the members of the technological trade group, which include major corporations like Microsoft<\/a>, Amazon, Meta, and Google as well as smaller data<\/a>, energy, and infrastructure enterprises and legal firms, Chip Pickering, a former congressman and the CEO of INCOMPAS, is promoting this plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"For American leadership, this is the right policy at the right time,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Pickering told the Financial Times (FT). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"However, in terms of competition with China, it is equally important.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The AI Competition Center (AICC) was founded in 2024 by the industrial association INCOMPAS to influence lawmakers and authorities. As discussions over AI regulations heated up and the EU implemented a number of steps to regulate the industry, Amazon's cloud business and Meta joined the AICC subgroup earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What are critics saying about Big Tech lobbying?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Big tech corporations' position, according to critics, is aimed at maintaining their lead in the competition to create artificial general intelligence, which is defined as models that are generally more intelligent than humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republican legislators and the technology industry are also divided over the planned ban, with some voicing worries about preventing states from monitoring strong technologies that may damage the economy and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proponents contend that the clause is required to avoid a patchwork of uneven regional regulations that may hinder innovation and push the US farther behind China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a Senate hearing last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that it would be \"catastrophic\" for the US to mandate that tech firms achieve specific standards, such safety and transparency, before launching their products. With the EU's new AI Act, this could soon be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Silicon Valley vies to produce ever-more-powerful models, proponents of AI safety, including Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, have cautioned that depending only on self-regulation may have catastrophic societal repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans who are advocating for the proposal's inclusion are looking into whether it conforms with the Senate's intricate regulations, which stipulate that each clause in a \"budget reconciliation\" package must have an effect on the budget. This strategy is being used by the party to pass the law without the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Big tech lobbies to block state AI laws for 10 years","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"big-tech-lobbies-to-block-state-ai-laws-for-10-years","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8076","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":4},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\n26 significant European corporations, including industry leaders like Airbus, Leonardo, Thales, and Rheinmetall, are represented by ASD, together with 23 national associations. According to the most recent data available in the EU Transparency Register, the group spent between \u20ac300,000 and \u20ac399,999 lobbying the EU institutions in 2023 and hired nine part-time lobbyists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Parliament revised its regulations in September 2023 to include all MEPs and their helpers in the transparency standards. This may help to explain the rise in the number of meetings, as they are required to disclose the specifics of each planned meeting with lobbyists. However, it also makes room for unofficial meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the start of their mandate in June of last year, 90 MEPs, primarily from the hard-right European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), the non-attached, and the far-right European Sovereign Nations (ESN) party, have failed to announce a single meeting.<\/p>\n","post_title":"New data shows defence sector ramping up lobbying efforts in EU Parliament","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"new-data-shows-defence-sector-ramping-up-lobbying-efforts-in-eu-parliament","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8083","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":8076,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_content":"\n
Major tech firms are supporting a lobbying effort <\/a>to ban US states from regulating AI models for ten years, a contentious move that has split the AI community and Donald Trump's Republican party. The Senate is being asked by lobbyists representing Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta to prevent states from passing their own artificial intelligence-related legislation for ten years, according to people with knowledge of the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last month, the US House of Representatives approved President Donald Trump's \"big and beautiful\" budget package, which included this clause. In order to approve the law before July 4, the Senate plans to unveil its own version this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On behalf of the members of the technological trade group, which include major corporations like Microsoft<\/a>, Amazon, Meta, and Google as well as smaller data<\/a>, energy, and infrastructure enterprises and legal firms, Chip Pickering, a former congressman and the CEO of INCOMPAS, is promoting this plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"For American leadership, this is the right policy at the right time,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Pickering told the Financial Times (FT). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"However, in terms of competition with China, it is equally important.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The AI Competition Center (AICC) was founded in 2024 by the industrial association INCOMPAS to influence lawmakers and authorities. As discussions over AI regulations heated up and the EU implemented a number of steps to regulate the industry, Amazon's cloud business and Meta joined the AICC subgroup earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What are critics saying about Big Tech lobbying?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Big tech corporations' position, according to critics, is aimed at maintaining their lead in the competition to create artificial general intelligence, which is defined as models that are generally more intelligent than humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republican legislators and the technology industry are also divided over the planned ban, with some voicing worries about preventing states from monitoring strong technologies that may damage the economy and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proponents contend that the clause is required to avoid a patchwork of uneven regional regulations that may hinder innovation and push the US farther behind China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a Senate hearing last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that it would be \"catastrophic\" for the US to mandate that tech firms achieve specific standards, such safety and transparency, before launching their products. With the EU's new AI Act, this could soon be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Silicon Valley vies to produce ever-more-powerful models, proponents of AI safety, including Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, have cautioned that depending only on self-regulation may have catastrophic societal repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans who are advocating for the proposal's inclusion are looking into whether it conforms with the Senate's intricate regulations, which stipulate that each clause in a \"budget reconciliation\" package must have an effect on the budget. This strategy is being used by the party to pass the law without the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Big tech lobbies to block state AI laws for 10 years","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"big-tech-lobbies-to-block-state-ai-laws-for-10-years","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8076","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":4},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\nThe Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD) has hosted twelve meetings with MEPs thus far, compared to just two during the previous term. This is another noteworthy rise in contacts with EU officials in the Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
26 significant European corporations, including industry leaders like Airbus, Leonardo, Thales, and Rheinmetall, are represented by ASD, together with 23 national associations. According to the most recent data available in the EU Transparency Register, the group spent between \u20ac300,000 and \u20ac399,999 lobbying the EU institutions in 2023 and hired nine part-time lobbyists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Parliament revised its regulations in September 2023 to include all MEPs and their helpers in the transparency standards. This may help to explain the rise in the number of meetings, as they are required to disclose the specifics of each planned meeting with lobbyists. However, it also makes room for unofficial meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the start of their mandate in June of last year, 90 MEPs, primarily from the hard-right European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), the non-attached, and the far-right European Sovereign Nations (ESN) party, have failed to announce a single meeting.<\/p>\n","post_title":"New data shows defence sector ramping up lobbying efforts in EU Parliament","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"new-data-shows-defence-sector-ramping-up-lobbying-efforts-in-eu-parliament","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8083","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":8076,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_content":"\n
Major tech firms are supporting a lobbying effort <\/a>to ban US states from regulating AI models for ten years, a contentious move that has split the AI community and Donald Trump's Republican party. The Senate is being asked by lobbyists representing Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta to prevent states from passing their own artificial intelligence-related legislation for ten years, according to people with knowledge of the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last month, the US House of Representatives approved President Donald Trump's \"big and beautiful\" budget package, which included this clause. In order to approve the law before July 4, the Senate plans to unveil its own version this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On behalf of the members of the technological trade group, which include major corporations like Microsoft<\/a>, Amazon, Meta, and Google as well as smaller data<\/a>, energy, and infrastructure enterprises and legal firms, Chip Pickering, a former congressman and the CEO of INCOMPAS, is promoting this plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"For American leadership, this is the right policy at the right time,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Pickering told the Financial Times (FT). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"However, in terms of competition with China, it is equally important.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The AI Competition Center (AICC) was founded in 2024 by the industrial association INCOMPAS to influence lawmakers and authorities. As discussions over AI regulations heated up and the EU implemented a number of steps to regulate the industry, Amazon's cloud business and Meta joined the AICC subgroup earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What are critics saying about Big Tech lobbying?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Big tech corporations' position, according to critics, is aimed at maintaining their lead in the competition to create artificial general intelligence, which is defined as models that are generally more intelligent than humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republican legislators and the technology industry are also divided over the planned ban, with some voicing worries about preventing states from monitoring strong technologies that may damage the economy and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proponents contend that the clause is required to avoid a patchwork of uneven regional regulations that may hinder innovation and push the US farther behind China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a Senate hearing last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that it would be \"catastrophic\" for the US to mandate that tech firms achieve specific standards, such safety and transparency, before launching their products. With the EU's new AI Act, this could soon be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Silicon Valley vies to produce ever-more-powerful models, proponents of AI safety, including Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, have cautioned that depending only on self-regulation may have catastrophic societal repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans who are advocating for the proposal's inclusion are looking into whether it conforms with the Senate's intricate regulations, which stipulate that each clause in a \"budget reconciliation\" package must have an effect on the budget. This strategy is being used by the party to pass the law without the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Big tech lobbies to block state AI laws for 10 years","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"big-tech-lobbies-to-block-state-ai-laws-for-10-years","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8076","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":4},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\nTo discuss the future of European defense, the implementation of the European Defence Industrial Strategy (EDIS), and the development of a robust European defence sector, for instance, RTX, a US aerospace and defence manufacturer, has arranged ten meetings with industry and security and defence committee members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD) has hosted twelve meetings with MEPs thus far, compared to just two during the previous term. This is another noteworthy rise in contacts with EU officials in the Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
26 significant European corporations, including industry leaders like Airbus, Leonardo, Thales, and Rheinmetall, are represented by ASD, together with 23 national associations. According to the most recent data available in the EU Transparency Register, the group spent between \u20ac300,000 and \u20ac399,999 lobbying the EU institutions in 2023 and hired nine part-time lobbyists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Parliament revised its regulations in September 2023 to include all MEPs and their helpers in the transparency standards. This may help to explain the rise in the number of meetings, as they are required to disclose the specifics of each planned meeting with lobbyists. However, it also makes room for unofficial meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the start of their mandate in June of last year, 90 MEPs, primarily from the hard-right European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), the non-attached, and the far-right European Sovereign Nations (ESN) party, have failed to announce a single meeting.<\/p>\n","post_title":"New data shows defence sector ramping up lobbying efforts in EU Parliament","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"new-data-shows-defence-sector-ramping-up-lobbying-efforts-in-eu-parliament","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8083","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":8076,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_content":"\n
Major tech firms are supporting a lobbying effort <\/a>to ban US states from regulating AI models for ten years, a contentious move that has split the AI community and Donald Trump's Republican party. The Senate is being asked by lobbyists representing Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta to prevent states from passing their own artificial intelligence-related legislation for ten years, according to people with knowledge of the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last month, the US House of Representatives approved President Donald Trump's \"big and beautiful\" budget package, which included this clause. In order to approve the law before July 4, the Senate plans to unveil its own version this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On behalf of the members of the technological trade group, which include major corporations like Microsoft<\/a>, Amazon, Meta, and Google as well as smaller data<\/a>, energy, and infrastructure enterprises and legal firms, Chip Pickering, a former congressman and the CEO of INCOMPAS, is promoting this plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"For American leadership, this is the right policy at the right time,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Pickering told the Financial Times (FT). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"However, in terms of competition with China, it is equally important.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The AI Competition Center (AICC) was founded in 2024 by the industrial association INCOMPAS to influence lawmakers and authorities. As discussions over AI regulations heated up and the EU implemented a number of steps to regulate the industry, Amazon's cloud business and Meta joined the AICC subgroup earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What are critics saying about Big Tech lobbying?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Big tech corporations' position, according to critics, is aimed at maintaining their lead in the competition to create artificial general intelligence, which is defined as models that are generally more intelligent than humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republican legislators and the technology industry are also divided over the planned ban, with some voicing worries about preventing states from monitoring strong technologies that may damage the economy and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proponents contend that the clause is required to avoid a patchwork of uneven regional regulations that may hinder innovation and push the US farther behind China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a Senate hearing last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that it would be \"catastrophic\" for the US to mandate that tech firms achieve specific standards, such safety and transparency, before launching their products. With the EU's new AI Act, this could soon be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Silicon Valley vies to produce ever-more-powerful models, proponents of AI safety, including Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, have cautioned that depending only on self-regulation may have catastrophic societal repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans who are advocating for the proposal's inclusion are looking into whether it conforms with the Senate's intricate regulations, which stipulate that each clause in a \"budget reconciliation\" package must have an effect on the budget. This strategy is being used by the party to pass the law without the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Big tech lobbies to block state AI laws for 10 years","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"big-tech-lobbies-to-block-state-ai-laws-for-10-years","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8076","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":4},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\nDue in part to significant increases in their lobbying expenditures, certain interest groups have also demonstrated a greater presence in the Parliament than others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To discuss the future of European defense, the implementation of the European Defence Industrial Strategy (EDIS), and the development of a robust European defence sector, for instance, RTX, a US aerospace and defence manufacturer, has arranged ten meetings with industry and security and defence committee members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD) has hosted twelve meetings with MEPs thus far, compared to just two during the previous term. This is another noteworthy rise in contacts with EU officials in the Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
26 significant European corporations, including industry leaders like Airbus, Leonardo, Thales, and Rheinmetall, are represented by ASD, together with 23 national associations. According to the most recent data available in the EU Transparency Register, the group spent between \u20ac300,000 and \u20ac399,999 lobbying the EU institutions in 2023 and hired nine part-time lobbyists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Parliament revised its regulations in September 2023 to include all MEPs and their helpers in the transparency standards. This may help to explain the rise in the number of meetings, as they are required to disclose the specifics of each planned meeting with lobbyists. However, it also makes room for unofficial meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the start of their mandate in June of last year, 90 MEPs, primarily from the hard-right European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), the non-attached, and the far-right European Sovereign Nations (ESN) party, have failed to announce a single meeting.<\/p>\n","post_title":"New data shows defence sector ramping up lobbying efforts in EU Parliament","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"new-data-shows-defence-sector-ramping-up-lobbying-efforts-in-eu-parliament","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8083","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":8076,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_content":"\n
Major tech firms are supporting a lobbying effort <\/a>to ban US states from regulating AI models for ten years, a contentious move that has split the AI community and Donald Trump's Republican party. The Senate is being asked by lobbyists representing Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta to prevent states from passing their own artificial intelligence-related legislation for ten years, according to people with knowledge of the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last month, the US House of Representatives approved President Donald Trump's \"big and beautiful\" budget package, which included this clause. In order to approve the law before July 4, the Senate plans to unveil its own version this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On behalf of the members of the technological trade group, which include major corporations like Microsoft<\/a>, Amazon, Meta, and Google as well as smaller data<\/a>, energy, and infrastructure enterprises and legal firms, Chip Pickering, a former congressman and the CEO of INCOMPAS, is promoting this plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"For American leadership, this is the right policy at the right time,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Pickering told the Financial Times (FT). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"However, in terms of competition with China, it is equally important.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The AI Competition Center (AICC) was founded in 2024 by the industrial association INCOMPAS to influence lawmakers and authorities. As discussions over AI regulations heated up and the EU implemented a number of steps to regulate the industry, Amazon's cloud business and Meta joined the AICC subgroup earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What are critics saying about Big Tech lobbying?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Big tech corporations' position, according to critics, is aimed at maintaining their lead in the competition to create artificial general intelligence, which is defined as models that are generally more intelligent than humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republican legislators and the technology industry are also divided over the planned ban, with some voicing worries about preventing states from monitoring strong technologies that may damage the economy and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proponents contend that the clause is required to avoid a patchwork of uneven regional regulations that may hinder innovation and push the US farther behind China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a Senate hearing last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that it would be \"catastrophic\" for the US to mandate that tech firms achieve specific standards, such safety and transparency, before launching their products. With the EU's new AI Act, this could soon be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Silicon Valley vies to produce ever-more-powerful models, proponents of AI safety, including Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, have cautioned that depending only on self-regulation may have catastrophic societal repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans who are advocating for the proposal's inclusion are looking into whether it conforms with the Senate's intricate regulations, which stipulate that each clause in a \"budget reconciliation\" package must have an effect on the budget. This strategy is being used by the party to pass the law without the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Big tech lobbies to block state AI laws for 10 years","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"big-tech-lobbies-to-block-state-ai-laws-for-10-years","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8076","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":4},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\nAs reported by <\/a>Transparency International, with an impressive 55 meetings over the last year, German MEPs were the most active in defense negotiations. Bulgaria came in second with 19, followed by the Czech Republic with 7, Poland and Latvia with 6, Spain with 15, Finland with 10, Italy and Denmark with 9 each, and Finland with 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Due in part to significant increases in their lobbying expenditures, certain interest groups have also demonstrated a greater presence in the Parliament than others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To discuss the future of European defense, the implementation of the European Defence Industrial Strategy (EDIS), and the development of a robust European defence sector, for instance, RTX, a US aerospace and defence manufacturer, has arranged ten meetings with industry and security and defence committee members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD) has hosted twelve meetings with MEPs thus far, compared to just two during the previous term. This is another noteworthy rise in contacts with EU officials in the Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
26 significant European corporations, including industry leaders like Airbus, Leonardo, Thales, and Rheinmetall, are represented by ASD, together with 23 national associations. According to the most recent data available in the EU Transparency Register, the group spent between \u20ac300,000 and \u20ac399,999 lobbying the EU institutions in 2023 and hired nine part-time lobbyists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Parliament revised its regulations in September 2023 to include all MEPs and their helpers in the transparency standards. This may help to explain the rise in the number of meetings, as they are required to disclose the specifics of each planned meeting with lobbyists. However, it also makes room for unofficial meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the start of their mandate in June of last year, 90 MEPs, primarily from the hard-right European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), the non-attached, and the far-right European Sovereign Nations (ESN) party, have failed to announce a single meeting.<\/p>\n","post_title":"New data shows defence sector ramping up lobbying efforts in EU Parliament","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"new-data-shows-defence-sector-ramping-up-lobbying-efforts-in-eu-parliament","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8083","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":8076,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_content":"\n
Major tech firms are supporting a lobbying effort <\/a>to ban US states from regulating AI models for ten years, a contentious move that has split the AI community and Donald Trump's Republican party. The Senate is being asked by lobbyists representing Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta to prevent states from passing their own artificial intelligence-related legislation for ten years, according to people with knowledge of the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last month, the US House of Representatives approved President Donald Trump's \"big and beautiful\" budget package, which included this clause. In order to approve the law before July 4, the Senate plans to unveil its own version this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On behalf of the members of the technological trade group, which include major corporations like Microsoft<\/a>, Amazon, Meta, and Google as well as smaller data<\/a>, energy, and infrastructure enterprises and legal firms, Chip Pickering, a former congressman and the CEO of INCOMPAS, is promoting this plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"For American leadership, this is the right policy at the right time,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Pickering told the Financial Times (FT). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"However, in terms of competition with China, it is equally important.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The AI Competition Center (AICC) was founded in 2024 by the industrial association INCOMPAS to influence lawmakers and authorities. As discussions over AI regulations heated up and the EU implemented a number of steps to regulate the industry, Amazon's cloud business and Meta joined the AICC subgroup earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What are critics saying about Big Tech lobbying?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Big tech corporations' position, according to critics, is aimed at maintaining their lead in the competition to create artificial general intelligence, which is defined as models that are generally more intelligent than humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republican legislators and the technology industry are also divided over the planned ban, with some voicing worries about preventing states from monitoring strong technologies that may damage the economy and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proponents contend that the clause is required to avoid a patchwork of uneven regional regulations that may hinder innovation and push the US farther behind China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a Senate hearing last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that it would be \"catastrophic\" for the US to mandate that tech firms achieve specific standards, such safety and transparency, before launching their products. With the EU's new AI Act, this could soon be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Silicon Valley vies to produce ever-more-powerful models, proponents of AI safety, including Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, have cautioned that depending only on self-regulation may have catastrophic societal repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans who are advocating for the proposal's inclusion are looking into whether it conforms with the Senate's intricate regulations, which stipulate that each clause in a \"budget reconciliation\" package must have an effect on the budget. This strategy is being used by the party to pass the law without the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Big tech lobbies to block state AI laws for 10 years","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"big-tech-lobbies-to-block-state-ai-laws-for-10-years","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8076","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":4},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\nWhat explains the sharp rise in lobbying activity?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
As reported by <\/a>Transparency International, with an impressive 55 meetings over the last year, German MEPs were the most active in defense negotiations. Bulgaria came in second with 19, followed by the Czech Republic with 7, Poland and Latvia with 6, Spain with 15, Finland with 10, Italy and Denmark with 9 each, and Finland with 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Due in part to significant increases in their lobbying expenditures, certain interest groups have also demonstrated a greater presence in the Parliament than others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To discuss the future of European defense, the implementation of the European Defence Industrial Strategy (EDIS), and the development of a robust European defence sector, for instance, RTX, a US aerospace and defence manufacturer, has arranged ten meetings with industry and security and defence committee members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD) has hosted twelve meetings with MEPs thus far, compared to just two during the previous term. This is another noteworthy rise in contacts with EU officials in the Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
26 significant European corporations, including industry leaders like Airbus, Leonardo, Thales, and Rheinmetall, are represented by ASD, together with 23 national associations. According to the most recent data available in the EU Transparency Register, the group spent between \u20ac300,000 and \u20ac399,999 lobbying the EU institutions in 2023 and hired nine part-time lobbyists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Parliament revised its regulations in September 2023 to include all MEPs and their helpers in the transparency standards. This may help to explain the rise in the number of meetings, as they are required to disclose the specifics of each planned meeting with lobbyists. However, it also makes room for unofficial meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the start of their mandate in June of last year, 90 MEPs, primarily from the hard-right European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), the non-attached, and the far-right European Sovereign Nations (ESN) party, have failed to announce a single meeting.<\/p>\n","post_title":"New data shows defence sector ramping up lobbying efforts in EU Parliament","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"new-data-shows-defence-sector-ramping-up-lobbying-efforts-in-eu-parliament","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8083","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":8076,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_content":"\n
Major tech firms are supporting a lobbying effort <\/a>to ban US states from regulating AI models for ten years, a contentious move that has split the AI community and Donald Trump's Republican party. The Senate is being asked by lobbyists representing Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta to prevent states from passing their own artificial intelligence-related legislation for ten years, according to people with knowledge of the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last month, the US House of Representatives approved President Donald Trump's \"big and beautiful\" budget package, which included this clause. In order to approve the law before July 4, the Senate plans to unveil its own version this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On behalf of the members of the technological trade group, which include major corporations like Microsoft<\/a>, Amazon, Meta, and Google as well as smaller data<\/a>, energy, and infrastructure enterprises and legal firms, Chip Pickering, a former congressman and the CEO of INCOMPAS, is promoting this plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"For American leadership, this is the right policy at the right time,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Pickering told the Financial Times (FT). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"However, in terms of competition with China, it is equally important.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The AI Competition Center (AICC) was founded in 2024 by the industrial association INCOMPAS to influence lawmakers and authorities. As discussions over AI regulations heated up and the EU implemented a number of steps to regulate the industry, Amazon's cloud business and Meta joined the AICC subgroup earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What are critics saying about Big Tech lobbying?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Big tech corporations' position, according to critics, is aimed at maintaining their lead in the competition to create artificial general intelligence, which is defined as models that are generally more intelligent than humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republican legislators and the technology industry are also divided over the planned ban, with some voicing worries about preventing states from monitoring strong technologies that may damage the economy and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proponents contend that the clause is required to avoid a patchwork of uneven regional regulations that may hinder innovation and push the US farther behind China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a Senate hearing last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that it would be \"catastrophic\" for the US to mandate that tech firms achieve specific standards, such safety and transparency, before launching their products. With the EU's new AI Act, this could soon be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Silicon Valley vies to produce ever-more-powerful models, proponents of AI safety, including Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, have cautioned that depending only on self-regulation may have catastrophic societal repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans who are advocating for the proposal's inclusion are looking into whether it conforms with the Senate's intricate regulations, which stipulate that each clause in a \"budget reconciliation\" package must have an effect on the budget. This strategy is being used by the party to pass the law without the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Big tech lobbies to block state AI laws for 10 years","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"big-tech-lobbies-to-block-state-ai-laws-for-10-years","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8076","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":4},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\nBrussels has seen a boom in defense-related lobbying since the European Parliament's new term began in June 2024. Lobbyists from consulting firms, trade associations, and defense companies organized 197 meetings between June 2024 and June 17, 2025. This is a significant rise over the 78 meetings that were held throughout the preceding five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What explains the sharp rise in lobbying activity?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
As reported by <\/a>Transparency International, with an impressive 55 meetings over the last year, German MEPs were the most active in defense negotiations. Bulgaria came in second with 19, followed by the Czech Republic with 7, Poland and Latvia with 6, Spain with 15, Finland with 10, Italy and Denmark with 9 each, and Finland with 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Due in part to significant increases in their lobbying expenditures, certain interest groups have also demonstrated a greater presence in the Parliament than others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To discuss the future of European defense, the implementation of the European Defence Industrial Strategy (EDIS), and the development of a robust European defence sector, for instance, RTX, a US aerospace and defence manufacturer, has arranged ten meetings with industry and security and defence committee members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD) has hosted twelve meetings with MEPs thus far, compared to just two during the previous term. This is another noteworthy rise in contacts with EU officials in the Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
26 significant European corporations, including industry leaders like Airbus, Leonardo, Thales, and Rheinmetall, are represented by ASD, together with 23 national associations. According to the most recent data available in the EU Transparency Register, the group spent between \u20ac300,000 and \u20ac399,999 lobbying the EU institutions in 2023 and hired nine part-time lobbyists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Parliament revised its regulations in September 2023 to include all MEPs and their helpers in the transparency standards. This may help to explain the rise in the number of meetings, as they are required to disclose the specifics of each planned meeting with lobbyists. However, it also makes room for unofficial meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the start of their mandate in June of last year, 90 MEPs, primarily from the hard-right European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), the non-attached, and the far-right European Sovereign Nations (ESN) party, have failed to announce a single meeting.<\/p>\n","post_title":"New data shows defence sector ramping up lobbying efforts in EU Parliament","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"new-data-shows-defence-sector-ramping-up-lobbying-efforts-in-eu-parliament","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8083","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":8076,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_content":"\n
Major tech firms are supporting a lobbying effort <\/a>to ban US states from regulating AI models for ten years, a contentious move that has split the AI community and Donald Trump's Republican party. The Senate is being asked by lobbyists representing Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta to prevent states from passing their own artificial intelligence-related legislation for ten years, according to people with knowledge of the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last month, the US House of Representatives approved President Donald Trump's \"big and beautiful\" budget package, which included this clause. In order to approve the law before July 4, the Senate plans to unveil its own version this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On behalf of the members of the technological trade group, which include major corporations like Microsoft<\/a>, Amazon, Meta, and Google as well as smaller data<\/a>, energy, and infrastructure enterprises and legal firms, Chip Pickering, a former congressman and the CEO of INCOMPAS, is promoting this plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"For American leadership, this is the right policy at the right time,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Pickering told the Financial Times (FT). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"However, in terms of competition with China, it is equally important.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The AI Competition Center (AICC) was founded in 2024 by the industrial association INCOMPAS to influence lawmakers and authorities. As discussions over AI regulations heated up and the EU implemented a number of steps to regulate the industry, Amazon's cloud business and Meta joined the AICC subgroup earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What are critics saying about Big Tech lobbying?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Big tech corporations' position, according to critics, is aimed at maintaining their lead in the competition to create artificial general intelligence, which is defined as models that are generally more intelligent than humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republican legislators and the technology industry are also divided over the planned ban, with some voicing worries about preventing states from monitoring strong technologies that may damage the economy and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proponents contend that the clause is required to avoid a patchwork of uneven regional regulations that may hinder innovation and push the US farther behind China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a Senate hearing last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that it would be \"catastrophic\" for the US to mandate that tech firms achieve specific standards, such safety and transparency, before launching their products. With the EU's new AI Act, this could soon be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Silicon Valley vies to produce ever-more-powerful models, proponents of AI safety, including Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, have cautioned that depending only on self-regulation may have catastrophic societal repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans who are advocating for the proposal's inclusion are looking into whether it conforms with the Senate's intricate regulations, which stipulate that each clause in a \"budget reconciliation\" package must have an effect on the budget. This strategy is being used by the party to pass the law without the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Big tech lobbies to block state AI laws for 10 years","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"big-tech-lobbies-to-block-state-ai-laws-for-10-years","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8076","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":4},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\nAccording to new data gathered by Transparency International, lobbyists <\/a>are putting more and more pressure on MEPs on defense-related matters. In the last year, lobbyists from defense companies, trade associations, and consulting groups have organized 197 meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brussels has seen a boom in defense-related lobbying since the European Parliament's new term began in June 2024. Lobbyists from consulting firms, trade associations, and defense companies organized 197 meetings between June 2024 and June 17, 2025. This is a significant rise over the 78 meetings that were held throughout the preceding five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What explains the sharp rise in lobbying activity?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
As reported by <\/a>Transparency International, with an impressive 55 meetings over the last year, German MEPs were the most active in defense negotiations. Bulgaria came in second with 19, followed by the Czech Republic with 7, Poland and Latvia with 6, Spain with 15, Finland with 10, Italy and Denmark with 9 each, and Finland with 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Due in part to significant increases in their lobbying expenditures, certain interest groups have also demonstrated a greater presence in the Parliament than others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To discuss the future of European defense, the implementation of the European Defence Industrial Strategy (EDIS), and the development of a robust European defence sector, for instance, RTX, a US aerospace and defence manufacturer, has arranged ten meetings with industry and security and defence committee members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD) has hosted twelve meetings with MEPs thus far, compared to just two during the previous term. This is another noteworthy rise in contacts with EU officials in the Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
26 significant European corporations, including industry leaders like Airbus, Leonardo, Thales, and Rheinmetall, are represented by ASD, together with 23 national associations. According to the most recent data available in the EU Transparency Register, the group spent between \u20ac300,000 and \u20ac399,999 lobbying the EU institutions in 2023 and hired nine part-time lobbyists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Parliament revised its regulations in September 2023 to include all MEPs and their helpers in the transparency standards. This may help to explain the rise in the number of meetings, as they are required to disclose the specifics of each planned meeting with lobbyists. However, it also makes room for unofficial meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the start of their mandate in June of last year, 90 MEPs, primarily from the hard-right European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), the non-attached, and the far-right European Sovereign Nations (ESN) party, have failed to announce a single meeting.<\/p>\n","post_title":"New data shows defence sector ramping up lobbying efforts in EU Parliament","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"new-data-shows-defence-sector-ramping-up-lobbying-efforts-in-eu-parliament","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8083","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":8076,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_content":"\n
Major tech firms are supporting a lobbying effort <\/a>to ban US states from regulating AI models for ten years, a contentious move that has split the AI community and Donald Trump's Republican party. The Senate is being asked by lobbyists representing Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta to prevent states from passing their own artificial intelligence-related legislation for ten years, according to people with knowledge of the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last month, the US House of Representatives approved President Donald Trump's \"big and beautiful\" budget package, which included this clause. In order to approve the law before July 4, the Senate plans to unveil its own version this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On behalf of the members of the technological trade group, which include major corporations like Microsoft<\/a>, Amazon, Meta, and Google as well as smaller data<\/a>, energy, and infrastructure enterprises and legal firms, Chip Pickering, a former congressman and the CEO of INCOMPAS, is promoting this plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"For American leadership, this is the right policy at the right time,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Pickering told the Financial Times (FT). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"However, in terms of competition with China, it is equally important.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The AI Competition Center (AICC) was founded in 2024 by the industrial association INCOMPAS to influence lawmakers and authorities. As discussions over AI regulations heated up and the EU implemented a number of steps to regulate the industry, Amazon's cloud business and Meta joined the AICC subgroup earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What are critics saying about Big Tech lobbying?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Big tech corporations' position, according to critics, is aimed at maintaining their lead in the competition to create artificial general intelligence, which is defined as models that are generally more intelligent than humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republican legislators and the technology industry are also divided over the planned ban, with some voicing worries about preventing states from monitoring strong technologies that may damage the economy and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proponents contend that the clause is required to avoid a patchwork of uneven regional regulations that may hinder innovation and push the US farther behind China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a Senate hearing last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that it would be \"catastrophic\" for the US to mandate that tech firms achieve specific standards, such safety and transparency, before launching their products. With the EU's new AI Act, this could soon be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Silicon Valley vies to produce ever-more-powerful models, proponents of AI safety, including Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, have cautioned that depending only on self-regulation may have catastrophic societal repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans who are advocating for the proposal's inclusion are looking into whether it conforms with the Senate's intricate regulations, which stipulate that each clause in a \"budget reconciliation\" package must have an effect on the budget. This strategy is being used by the party to pass the law without the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Big tech lobbies to block state AI laws for 10 years","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"big-tech-lobbies-to-block-state-ai-laws-for-10-years","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8076","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":4},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\nIn other words, if passed, this clause would lower or possibly completely remove oil and gas corporations' tax obligations under CAMT, enabling them to pay no federal income taxes at all.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Democratic senator challenges oil firms on tax break lobbying in Senate bill","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"democratic-senator-challenges-oil-firms-on-tax-break-lobbying-in-senate-bill","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-29 12:12:22","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-29 12:12:22","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8112","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":8083,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-06-26 10:08:42","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-26 10:08:42","post_content":"\n
According to new data gathered by Transparency International, lobbyists <\/a>are putting more and more pressure on MEPs on defense-related matters. In the last year, lobbyists from defense companies, trade associations, and consulting groups have organized 197 meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brussels has seen a boom in defense-related lobbying since the European Parliament's new term began in June 2024. Lobbyists from consulting firms, trade associations, and defense companies organized 197 meetings between June 2024 and June 17, 2025. This is a significant rise over the 78 meetings that were held throughout the preceding five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What explains the sharp rise in lobbying activity?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
As reported by <\/a>Transparency International, with an impressive 55 meetings over the last year, German MEPs were the most active in defense negotiations. Bulgaria came in second with 19, followed by the Czech Republic with 7, Poland and Latvia with 6, Spain with 15, Finland with 10, Italy and Denmark with 9 each, and Finland with 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Due in part to significant increases in their lobbying expenditures, certain interest groups have also demonstrated a greater presence in the Parliament than others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To discuss the future of European defense, the implementation of the European Defence Industrial Strategy (EDIS), and the development of a robust European defence sector, for instance, RTX, a US aerospace and defence manufacturer, has arranged ten meetings with industry and security and defence committee members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD) has hosted twelve meetings with MEPs thus far, compared to just two during the previous term. This is another noteworthy rise in contacts with EU officials in the Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
26 significant European corporations, including industry leaders like Airbus, Leonardo, Thales, and Rheinmetall, are represented by ASD, together with 23 national associations. According to the most recent data available in the EU Transparency Register, the group spent between \u20ac300,000 and \u20ac399,999 lobbying the EU institutions in 2023 and hired nine part-time lobbyists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Parliament revised its regulations in September 2023 to include all MEPs and their helpers in the transparency standards. This may help to explain the rise in the number of meetings, as they are required to disclose the specifics of each planned meeting with lobbyists. However, it also makes room for unofficial meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the start of their mandate in June of last year, 90 MEPs, primarily from the hard-right European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), the non-attached, and the far-right European Sovereign Nations (ESN) party, have failed to announce a single meeting.<\/p>\n","post_title":"New data shows defence sector ramping up lobbying efforts in EU Parliament","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"new-data-shows-defence-sector-ramping-up-lobbying-efforts-in-eu-parliament","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8083","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":8076,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_content":"\n
Major tech firms are supporting a lobbying effort <\/a>to ban US states from regulating AI models for ten years, a contentious move that has split the AI community and Donald Trump's Republican party. The Senate is being asked by lobbyists representing Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta to prevent states from passing their own artificial intelligence-related legislation for ten years, according to people with knowledge of the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last month, the US House of Representatives approved President Donald Trump's \"big and beautiful\" budget package, which included this clause. In order to approve the law before July 4, the Senate plans to unveil its own version this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On behalf of the members of the technological trade group, which include major corporations like Microsoft<\/a>, Amazon, Meta, and Google as well as smaller data<\/a>, energy, and infrastructure enterprises and legal firms, Chip Pickering, a former congressman and the CEO of INCOMPAS, is promoting this plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"For American leadership, this is the right policy at the right time,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Pickering told the Financial Times (FT). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"However, in terms of competition with China, it is equally important.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The AI Competition Center (AICC) was founded in 2024 by the industrial association INCOMPAS to influence lawmakers and authorities. As discussions over AI regulations heated up and the EU implemented a number of steps to regulate the industry, Amazon's cloud business and Meta joined the AICC subgroup earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What are critics saying about Big Tech lobbying?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Big tech corporations' position, according to critics, is aimed at maintaining their lead in the competition to create artificial general intelligence, which is defined as models that are generally more intelligent than humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republican legislators and the technology industry are also divided over the planned ban, with some voicing worries about preventing states from monitoring strong technologies that may damage the economy and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proponents contend that the clause is required to avoid a patchwork of uneven regional regulations that may hinder innovation and push the US farther behind China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a Senate hearing last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that it would be \"catastrophic\" for the US to mandate that tech firms achieve specific standards, such safety and transparency, before launching their products. With the EU's new AI Act, this could soon be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Silicon Valley vies to produce ever-more-powerful models, proponents of AI safety, including Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, have cautioned that depending only on self-regulation may have catastrophic societal repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans who are advocating for the proposal's inclusion are looking into whether it conforms with the Senate's intricate regulations, which stipulate that each clause in a \"budget reconciliation\" package must have an effect on the budget. This strategy is being used by the party to pass the law without the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Big tech lobbies to block state AI laws for 10 years","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"big-tech-lobbies-to-block-state-ai-laws-for-10-years","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8076","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":4},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\n\"Big Oil now wants this deduction to apply not only for their taxable income but also for book income purposes.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
In other words, if passed, this clause would lower or possibly completely remove oil and gas corporations' tax obligations under CAMT, enabling them to pay no federal income taxes at all.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Democratic senator challenges oil firms on tax break lobbying in Senate bill","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"democratic-senator-challenges-oil-firms-on-tax-break-lobbying-in-senate-bill","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-29 12:12:22","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-29 12:12:22","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8112","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":8083,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-06-26 10:08:42","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-26 10:08:42","post_content":"\n
According to new data gathered by Transparency International, lobbyists <\/a>are putting more and more pressure on MEPs on defense-related matters. In the last year, lobbyists from defense companies, trade associations, and consulting groups have organized 197 meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brussels has seen a boom in defense-related lobbying since the European Parliament's new term began in June 2024. Lobbyists from consulting firms, trade associations, and defense companies organized 197 meetings between June 2024 and June 17, 2025. This is a significant rise over the 78 meetings that were held throughout the preceding five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What explains the sharp rise in lobbying activity?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
As reported by <\/a>Transparency International, with an impressive 55 meetings over the last year, German MEPs were the most active in defense negotiations. Bulgaria came in second with 19, followed by the Czech Republic with 7, Poland and Latvia with 6, Spain with 15, Finland with 10, Italy and Denmark with 9 each, and Finland with 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Due in part to significant increases in their lobbying expenditures, certain interest groups have also demonstrated a greater presence in the Parliament than others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To discuss the future of European defense, the implementation of the European Defence Industrial Strategy (EDIS), and the development of a robust European defence sector, for instance, RTX, a US aerospace and defence manufacturer, has arranged ten meetings with industry and security and defence committee members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD) has hosted twelve meetings with MEPs thus far, compared to just two during the previous term. This is another noteworthy rise in contacts with EU officials in the Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
26 significant European corporations, including industry leaders like Airbus, Leonardo, Thales, and Rheinmetall, are represented by ASD, together with 23 national associations. According to the most recent data available in the EU Transparency Register, the group spent between \u20ac300,000 and \u20ac399,999 lobbying the EU institutions in 2023 and hired nine part-time lobbyists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Parliament revised its regulations in September 2023 to include all MEPs and their helpers in the transparency standards. This may help to explain the rise in the number of meetings, as they are required to disclose the specifics of each planned meeting with lobbyists. However, it also makes room for unofficial meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the start of their mandate in June of last year, 90 MEPs, primarily from the hard-right European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), the non-attached, and the far-right European Sovereign Nations (ESN) party, have failed to announce a single meeting.<\/p>\n","post_title":"New data shows defence sector ramping up lobbying efforts in EU Parliament","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"new-data-shows-defence-sector-ramping-up-lobbying-efforts-in-eu-parliament","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8083","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":8076,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_content":"\n
Major tech firms are supporting a lobbying effort <\/a>to ban US states from regulating AI models for ten years, a contentious move that has split the AI community and Donald Trump's Republican party. The Senate is being asked by lobbyists representing Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta to prevent states from passing their own artificial intelligence-related legislation for ten years, according to people with knowledge of the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last month, the US House of Representatives approved President Donald Trump's \"big and beautiful\" budget package, which included this clause. In order to approve the law before July 4, the Senate plans to unveil its own version this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On behalf of the members of the technological trade group, which include major corporations like Microsoft<\/a>, Amazon, Meta, and Google as well as smaller data<\/a>, energy, and infrastructure enterprises and legal firms, Chip Pickering, a former congressman and the CEO of INCOMPAS, is promoting this plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"For American leadership, this is the right policy at the right time,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Pickering told the Financial Times (FT). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"However, in terms of competition with China, it is equally important.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The AI Competition Center (AICC) was founded in 2024 by the industrial association INCOMPAS to influence lawmakers and authorities. As discussions over AI regulations heated up and the EU implemented a number of steps to regulate the industry, Amazon's cloud business and Meta joined the AICC subgroup earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What are critics saying about Big Tech lobbying?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Big tech corporations' position, according to critics, is aimed at maintaining their lead in the competition to create artificial general intelligence, which is defined as models that are generally more intelligent than humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republican legislators and the technology industry are also divided over the planned ban, with some voicing worries about preventing states from monitoring strong technologies that may damage the economy and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proponents contend that the clause is required to avoid a patchwork of uneven regional regulations that may hinder innovation and push the US farther behind China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a Senate hearing last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that it would be \"catastrophic\" for the US to mandate that tech firms achieve specific standards, such safety and transparency, before launching their products. With the EU's new AI Act, this could soon be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Silicon Valley vies to produce ever-more-powerful models, proponents of AI safety, including Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, have cautioned that depending only on self-regulation may have catastrophic societal repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans who are advocating for the proposal's inclusion are looking into whether it conforms with the Senate's intricate regulations, which stipulate that each clause in a \"budget reconciliation\" package must have an effect on the budget. This strategy is being used by the party to pass the law without the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Big tech lobbies to block state AI laws for 10 years","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"big-tech-lobbies-to-block-state-ai-laws-for-10-years","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8076","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":4},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\n\n\"Big Oil now wants this deduction to apply not only for their taxable income but also for book income purposes.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
In other words, if passed, this clause would lower or possibly completely remove oil and gas corporations' tax obligations under CAMT, enabling them to pay no federal income taxes at all.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Democratic senator challenges oil firms on tax break lobbying in Senate bill","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"democratic-senator-challenges-oil-firms-on-tax-break-lobbying-in-senate-bill","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-29 12:12:22","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-29 12:12:22","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8112","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":8083,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-06-26 10:08:42","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-26 10:08:42","post_content":"\n
According to new data gathered by Transparency International, lobbyists <\/a>are putting more and more pressure on MEPs on defense-related matters. In the last year, lobbyists from defense companies, trade associations, and consulting groups have organized 197 meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brussels has seen a boom in defense-related lobbying since the European Parliament's new term began in June 2024. Lobbyists from consulting firms, trade associations, and defense companies organized 197 meetings between June 2024 and June 17, 2025. This is a significant rise over the 78 meetings that were held throughout the preceding five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What explains the sharp rise in lobbying activity?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
As reported by <\/a>Transparency International, with an impressive 55 meetings over the last year, German MEPs were the most active in defense negotiations. Bulgaria came in second with 19, followed by the Czech Republic with 7, Poland and Latvia with 6, Spain with 15, Finland with 10, Italy and Denmark with 9 each, and Finland with 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Due in part to significant increases in their lobbying expenditures, certain interest groups have also demonstrated a greater presence in the Parliament than others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To discuss the future of European defense, the implementation of the European Defence Industrial Strategy (EDIS), and the development of a robust European defence sector, for instance, RTX, a US aerospace and defence manufacturer, has arranged ten meetings with industry and security and defence committee members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD) has hosted twelve meetings with MEPs thus far, compared to just two during the previous term. This is another noteworthy rise in contacts with EU officials in the Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
26 significant European corporations, including industry leaders like Airbus, Leonardo, Thales, and Rheinmetall, are represented by ASD, together with 23 national associations. According to the most recent data available in the EU Transparency Register, the group spent between \u20ac300,000 and \u20ac399,999 lobbying the EU institutions in 2023 and hired nine part-time lobbyists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Parliament revised its regulations in September 2023 to include all MEPs and their helpers in the transparency standards. This may help to explain the rise in the number of meetings, as they are required to disclose the specifics of each planned meeting with lobbyists. However, it also makes room for unofficial meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the start of their mandate in June of last year, 90 MEPs, primarily from the hard-right European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), the non-attached, and the far-right European Sovereign Nations (ESN) party, have failed to announce a single meeting.<\/p>\n","post_title":"New data shows defence sector ramping up lobbying efforts in EU Parliament","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"new-data-shows-defence-sector-ramping-up-lobbying-efforts-in-eu-parliament","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8083","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":8076,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_content":"\n
Major tech firms are supporting a lobbying effort <\/a>to ban US states from regulating AI models for ten years, a contentious move that has split the AI community and Donald Trump's Republican party. The Senate is being asked by lobbyists representing Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta to prevent states from passing their own artificial intelligence-related legislation for ten years, according to people with knowledge of the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last month, the US House of Representatives approved President Donald Trump's \"big and beautiful\" budget package, which included this clause. In order to approve the law before July 4, the Senate plans to unveil its own version this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On behalf of the members of the technological trade group, which include major corporations like Microsoft<\/a>, Amazon, Meta, and Google as well as smaller data<\/a>, energy, and infrastructure enterprises and legal firms, Chip Pickering, a former congressman and the CEO of INCOMPAS, is promoting this plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"For American leadership, this is the right policy at the right time,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Pickering told the Financial Times (FT). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"However, in terms of competition with China, it is equally important.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The AI Competition Center (AICC) was founded in 2024 by the industrial association INCOMPAS to influence lawmakers and authorities. As discussions over AI regulations heated up and the EU implemented a number of steps to regulate the industry, Amazon's cloud business and Meta joined the AICC subgroup earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What are critics saying about Big Tech lobbying?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Big tech corporations' position, according to critics, is aimed at maintaining their lead in the competition to create artificial general intelligence, which is defined as models that are generally more intelligent than humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republican legislators and the technology industry are also divided over the planned ban, with some voicing worries about preventing states from monitoring strong technologies that may damage the economy and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proponents contend that the clause is required to avoid a patchwork of uneven regional regulations that may hinder innovation and push the US farther behind China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a Senate hearing last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that it would be \"catastrophic\" for the US to mandate that tech firms achieve specific standards, such safety and transparency, before launching their products. With the EU's new AI Act, this could soon be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Silicon Valley vies to produce ever-more-powerful models, proponents of AI safety, including Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, have cautioned that depending only on self-regulation may have catastrophic societal repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans who are advocating for the proposal's inclusion are looking into whether it conforms with the Senate's intricate regulations, which stipulate that each clause in a \"budget reconciliation\" package must have an effect on the budget. This strategy is being used by the party to pass the law without the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Big tech lobbies to block state AI laws for 10 years","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"big-tech-lobbies-to-block-state-ai-laws-for-10-years","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8076","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":4},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\nAccording to the letters, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"Big Oil now wants this deduction to apply not only for their taxable income but also for book income purposes.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
In other words, if passed, this clause would lower or possibly completely remove oil and gas corporations' tax obligations under CAMT, enabling them to pay no federal income taxes at all.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Democratic senator challenges oil firms on tax break lobbying in Senate bill","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"democratic-senator-challenges-oil-firms-on-tax-break-lobbying-in-senate-bill","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-29 12:12:22","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-29 12:12:22","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8112","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":8083,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-06-26 10:08:42","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-26 10:08:42","post_content":"\n
According to new data gathered by Transparency International, lobbyists <\/a>are putting more and more pressure on MEPs on defense-related matters. In the last year, lobbyists from defense companies, trade associations, and consulting groups have organized 197 meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brussels has seen a boom in defense-related lobbying since the European Parliament's new term began in June 2024. Lobbyists from consulting firms, trade associations, and defense companies organized 197 meetings between June 2024 and June 17, 2025. This is a significant rise over the 78 meetings that were held throughout the preceding five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What explains the sharp rise in lobbying activity?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
As reported by <\/a>Transparency International, with an impressive 55 meetings over the last year, German MEPs were the most active in defense negotiations. Bulgaria came in second with 19, followed by the Czech Republic with 7, Poland and Latvia with 6, Spain with 15, Finland with 10, Italy and Denmark with 9 each, and Finland with 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Due in part to significant increases in their lobbying expenditures, certain interest groups have also demonstrated a greater presence in the Parliament than others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To discuss the future of European defense, the implementation of the European Defence Industrial Strategy (EDIS), and the development of a robust European defence sector, for instance, RTX, a US aerospace and defence manufacturer, has arranged ten meetings with industry and security and defence committee members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD) has hosted twelve meetings with MEPs thus far, compared to just two during the previous term. This is another noteworthy rise in contacts with EU officials in the Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
26 significant European corporations, including industry leaders like Airbus, Leonardo, Thales, and Rheinmetall, are represented by ASD, together with 23 national associations. According to the most recent data available in the EU Transparency Register, the group spent between \u20ac300,000 and \u20ac399,999 lobbying the EU institutions in 2023 and hired nine part-time lobbyists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Parliament revised its regulations in September 2023 to include all MEPs and their helpers in the transparency standards. This may help to explain the rise in the number of meetings, as they are required to disclose the specifics of each planned meeting with lobbyists. However, it also makes room for unofficial meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the start of their mandate in June of last year, 90 MEPs, primarily from the hard-right European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), the non-attached, and the far-right European Sovereign Nations (ESN) party, have failed to announce a single meeting.<\/p>\n","post_title":"New data shows defence sector ramping up lobbying efforts in EU Parliament","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"new-data-shows-defence-sector-ramping-up-lobbying-efforts-in-eu-parliament","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8083","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":8076,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_content":"\n
Major tech firms are supporting a lobbying effort <\/a>to ban US states from regulating AI models for ten years, a contentious move that has split the AI community and Donald Trump's Republican party. The Senate is being asked by lobbyists representing Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta to prevent states from passing their own artificial intelligence-related legislation for ten years, according to people with knowledge of the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last month, the US House of Representatives approved President Donald Trump's \"big and beautiful\" budget package, which included this clause. In order to approve the law before July 4, the Senate plans to unveil its own version this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On behalf of the members of the technological trade group, which include major corporations like Microsoft<\/a>, Amazon, Meta, and Google as well as smaller data<\/a>, energy, and infrastructure enterprises and legal firms, Chip Pickering, a former congressman and the CEO of INCOMPAS, is promoting this plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"For American leadership, this is the right policy at the right time,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Pickering told the Financial Times (FT). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"However, in terms of competition with China, it is equally important.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The AI Competition Center (AICC) was founded in 2024 by the industrial association INCOMPAS to influence lawmakers and authorities. As discussions over AI regulations heated up and the EU implemented a number of steps to regulate the industry, Amazon's cloud business and Meta joined the AICC subgroup earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What are critics saying about Big Tech lobbying?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Big tech corporations' position, according to critics, is aimed at maintaining their lead in the competition to create artificial general intelligence, which is defined as models that are generally more intelligent than humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republican legislators and the technology industry are also divided over the planned ban, with some voicing worries about preventing states from monitoring strong technologies that may damage the economy and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proponents contend that the clause is required to avoid a patchwork of uneven regional regulations that may hinder innovation and push the US farther behind China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a Senate hearing last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that it would be \"catastrophic\" for the US to mandate that tech firms achieve specific standards, such safety and transparency, before launching their products. With the EU's new AI Act, this could soon be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Silicon Valley vies to produce ever-more-powerful models, proponents of AI safety, including Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, have cautioned that depending only on self-regulation may have catastrophic societal repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans who are advocating for the proposal's inclusion are looking into whether it conforms with the Senate's intricate regulations, which stipulate that each clause in a \"budget reconciliation\" package must have an effect on the budget. This strategy is being used by the party to pass the law without the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Big tech lobbies to block state AI laws for 10 years","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"big-tech-lobbies-to-block-state-ai-laws-for-10-years","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8076","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":4},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\nFrom 2019 to 2024, Lankford's primary industrial fundraising source was the fossil fuel business, which donated close to $500,000 to him. According to one analysis on the Lankford plan, deductions for intangible drilling costs\u2014which relate to expenses incurred prior to drilling, such as personnel and equipment\u2014have been in place since 1913, making them the oldest and largest fossil fuel subsidy in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the letters, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"Big Oil now wants this deduction to apply not only for their taxable income but also for book income purposes.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
In other words, if passed, this clause would lower or possibly completely remove oil and gas corporations' tax obligations under CAMT, enabling them to pay no federal income taxes at all.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Democratic senator challenges oil firms on tax break lobbying in Senate bill","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"democratic-senator-challenges-oil-firms-on-tax-break-lobbying-in-senate-bill","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-29 12:12:22","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-29 12:12:22","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8112","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":8083,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-06-26 10:08:42","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-26 10:08:42","post_content":"\n
According to new data gathered by Transparency International, lobbyists <\/a>are putting more and more pressure on MEPs on defense-related matters. In the last year, lobbyists from defense companies, trade associations, and consulting groups have organized 197 meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brussels has seen a boom in defense-related lobbying since the European Parliament's new term began in June 2024. Lobbyists from consulting firms, trade associations, and defense companies organized 197 meetings between June 2024 and June 17, 2025. This is a significant rise over the 78 meetings that were held throughout the preceding five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What explains the sharp rise in lobbying activity?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
As reported by <\/a>Transparency International, with an impressive 55 meetings over the last year, German MEPs were the most active in defense negotiations. Bulgaria came in second with 19, followed by the Czech Republic with 7, Poland and Latvia with 6, Spain with 15, Finland with 10, Italy and Denmark with 9 each, and Finland with 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Due in part to significant increases in their lobbying expenditures, certain interest groups have also demonstrated a greater presence in the Parliament than others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To discuss the future of European defense, the implementation of the European Defence Industrial Strategy (EDIS), and the development of a robust European defence sector, for instance, RTX, a US aerospace and defence manufacturer, has arranged ten meetings with industry and security and defence committee members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD) has hosted twelve meetings with MEPs thus far, compared to just two during the previous term. This is another noteworthy rise in contacts with EU officials in the Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
26 significant European corporations, including industry leaders like Airbus, Leonardo, Thales, and Rheinmetall, are represented by ASD, together with 23 national associations. According to the most recent data available in the EU Transparency Register, the group spent between \u20ac300,000 and \u20ac399,999 lobbying the EU institutions in 2023 and hired nine part-time lobbyists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Parliament revised its regulations in September 2023 to include all MEPs and their helpers in the transparency standards. This may help to explain the rise in the number of meetings, as they are required to disclose the specifics of each planned meeting with lobbyists. However, it also makes room for unofficial meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the start of their mandate in June of last year, 90 MEPs, primarily from the hard-right European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), the non-attached, and the far-right European Sovereign Nations (ESN) party, have failed to announce a single meeting.<\/p>\n","post_title":"New data shows defence sector ramping up lobbying efforts in EU Parliament","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"new-data-shows-defence-sector-ramping-up-lobbying-efforts-in-eu-parliament","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8083","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":8076,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_content":"\n
Major tech firms are supporting a lobbying effort <\/a>to ban US states from regulating AI models for ten years, a contentious move that has split the AI community and Donald Trump's Republican party. The Senate is being asked by lobbyists representing Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta to prevent states from passing their own artificial intelligence-related legislation for ten years, according to people with knowledge of the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last month, the US House of Representatives approved President Donald Trump's \"big and beautiful\" budget package, which included this clause. In order to approve the law before July 4, the Senate plans to unveil its own version this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On behalf of the members of the technological trade group, which include major corporations like Microsoft<\/a>, Amazon, Meta, and Google as well as smaller data<\/a>, energy, and infrastructure enterprises and legal firms, Chip Pickering, a former congressman and the CEO of INCOMPAS, is promoting this plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"For American leadership, this is the right policy at the right time,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Pickering told the Financial Times (FT). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"However, in terms of competition with China, it is equally important.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The AI Competition Center (AICC) was founded in 2024 by the industrial association INCOMPAS to influence lawmakers and authorities. As discussions over AI regulations heated up and the EU implemented a number of steps to regulate the industry, Amazon's cloud business and Meta joined the AICC subgroup earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What are critics saying about Big Tech lobbying?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Big tech corporations' position, according to critics, is aimed at maintaining their lead in the competition to create artificial general intelligence, which is defined as models that are generally more intelligent than humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republican legislators and the technology industry are also divided over the planned ban, with some voicing worries about preventing states from monitoring strong technologies that may damage the economy and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proponents contend that the clause is required to avoid a patchwork of uneven regional regulations that may hinder innovation and push the US farther behind China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a Senate hearing last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that it would be \"catastrophic\" for the US to mandate that tech firms achieve specific standards, such safety and transparency, before launching their products. With the EU's new AI Act, this could soon be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Silicon Valley vies to produce ever-more-powerful models, proponents of AI safety, including Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, have cautioned that depending only on self-regulation may have catastrophic societal repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans who are advocating for the proposal's inclusion are looking into whether it conforms with the Senate's intricate regulations, which stipulate that each clause in a \"budget reconciliation\" package must have an effect on the budget. This strategy is being used by the party to pass the law without the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Big tech lobbies to block state AI laws for 10 years","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"big-tech-lobbies-to-block-state-ai-laws-for-10-years","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8076","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":4},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\nWhat is the role of Senator Lankford in this?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
From 2019 to 2024, Lankford's primary industrial fundraising source was the fossil fuel business, which donated close to $500,000 to him. According to one analysis on the Lankford plan, deductions for intangible drilling costs\u2014which relate to expenses incurred prior to drilling, such as personnel and equipment\u2014have been in place since 1913, making them the oldest and largest fossil fuel subsidy in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the letters, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"Big Oil now wants this deduction to apply not only for their taxable income but also for book income purposes.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
In other words, if passed, this clause would lower or possibly completely remove oil and gas corporations' tax obligations under CAMT, enabling them to pay no federal income taxes at all.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Democratic senator challenges oil firms on tax break lobbying in Senate bill","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"democratic-senator-challenges-oil-firms-on-tax-break-lobbying-in-senate-bill","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-29 12:12:22","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-29 12:12:22","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8112","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":8083,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-06-26 10:08:42","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-26 10:08:42","post_content":"\n
According to new data gathered by Transparency International, lobbyists <\/a>are putting more and more pressure on MEPs on defense-related matters. In the last year, lobbyists from defense companies, trade associations, and consulting groups have organized 197 meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brussels has seen a boom in defense-related lobbying since the European Parliament's new term began in June 2024. Lobbyists from consulting firms, trade associations, and defense companies organized 197 meetings between June 2024 and June 17, 2025. This is a significant rise over the 78 meetings that were held throughout the preceding five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What explains the sharp rise in lobbying activity?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
As reported by <\/a>Transparency International, with an impressive 55 meetings over the last year, German MEPs were the most active in defense negotiations. Bulgaria came in second with 19, followed by the Czech Republic with 7, Poland and Latvia with 6, Spain with 15, Finland with 10, Italy and Denmark with 9 each, and Finland with 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Due in part to significant increases in their lobbying expenditures, certain interest groups have also demonstrated a greater presence in the Parliament than others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To discuss the future of European defense, the implementation of the European Defence Industrial Strategy (EDIS), and the development of a robust European defence sector, for instance, RTX, a US aerospace and defence manufacturer, has arranged ten meetings with industry and security and defence committee members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD) has hosted twelve meetings with MEPs thus far, compared to just two during the previous term. This is another noteworthy rise in contacts with EU officials in the Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
26 significant European corporations, including industry leaders like Airbus, Leonardo, Thales, and Rheinmetall, are represented by ASD, together with 23 national associations. According to the most recent data available in the EU Transparency Register, the group spent between \u20ac300,000 and \u20ac399,999 lobbying the EU institutions in 2023 and hired nine part-time lobbyists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Parliament revised its regulations in September 2023 to include all MEPs and their helpers in the transparency standards. This may help to explain the rise in the number of meetings, as they are required to disclose the specifics of each planned meeting with lobbyists. However, it also makes room for unofficial meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the start of their mandate in June of last year, 90 MEPs, primarily from the hard-right European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), the non-attached, and the far-right European Sovereign Nations (ESN) party, have failed to announce a single meeting.<\/p>\n","post_title":"New data shows defence sector ramping up lobbying efforts in EU Parliament","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"new-data-shows-defence-sector-ramping-up-lobbying-efforts-in-eu-parliament","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8083","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":8076,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_content":"\n
Major tech firms are supporting a lobbying effort <\/a>to ban US states from regulating AI models for ten years, a contentious move that has split the AI community and Donald Trump's Republican party. The Senate is being asked by lobbyists representing Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta to prevent states from passing their own artificial intelligence-related legislation for ten years, according to people with knowledge of the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last month, the US House of Representatives approved President Donald Trump's \"big and beautiful\" budget package, which included this clause. In order to approve the law before July 4, the Senate plans to unveil its own version this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On behalf of the members of the technological trade group, which include major corporations like Microsoft<\/a>, Amazon, Meta, and Google as well as smaller data<\/a>, energy, and infrastructure enterprises and legal firms, Chip Pickering, a former congressman and the CEO of INCOMPAS, is promoting this plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"For American leadership, this is the right policy at the right time,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Pickering told the Financial Times (FT). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"However, in terms of competition with China, it is equally important.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The AI Competition Center (AICC) was founded in 2024 by the industrial association INCOMPAS to influence lawmakers and authorities. As discussions over AI regulations heated up and the EU implemented a number of steps to regulate the industry, Amazon's cloud business and Meta joined the AICC subgroup earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What are critics saying about Big Tech lobbying?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Big tech corporations' position, according to critics, is aimed at maintaining their lead in the competition to create artificial general intelligence, which is defined as models that are generally more intelligent than humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republican legislators and the technology industry are also divided over the planned ban, with some voicing worries about preventing states from monitoring strong technologies that may damage the economy and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proponents contend that the clause is required to avoid a patchwork of uneven regional regulations that may hinder innovation and push the US farther behind China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a Senate hearing last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that it would be \"catastrophic\" for the US to mandate that tech firms achieve specific standards, such safety and transparency, before launching their products. With the EU's new AI Act, this could soon be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Silicon Valley vies to produce ever-more-powerful models, proponents of AI safety, including Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, have cautioned that depending only on self-regulation may have catastrophic societal repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans who are advocating for the proposal's inclusion are looking into whether it conforms with the Senate's intricate regulations, which stipulate that each clause in a \"budget reconciliation\" package must have an effect on the budget. This strategy is being used by the party to pass the law without the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Big tech lobbies to block state AI laws for 10 years","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"big-tech-lobbies-to-block-state-ai-laws-for-10-years","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8076","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":4},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\nAccording to the letter, the proposed modification is quite similar to a plan that Oklahoma Senator James Lankford submitted this year that would allow businesses to deduct \"intangible drilling and development costs\" from their CAMT revenue calculations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is the role of Senator Lankford in this?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
From 2019 to 2024, Lankford's primary industrial fundraising source was the fossil fuel business, which donated close to $500,000 to him. According to one analysis on the Lankford plan, deductions for intangible drilling costs\u2014which relate to expenses incurred prior to drilling, such as personnel and equipment\u2014have been in place since 1913, making them the oldest and largest fossil fuel subsidy in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the letters, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"Big Oil now wants this deduction to apply not only for their taxable income but also for book income purposes.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
In other words, if passed, this clause would lower or possibly completely remove oil and gas corporations' tax obligations under CAMT, enabling them to pay no federal income taxes at all.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Democratic senator challenges oil firms on tax break lobbying in Senate bill","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"democratic-senator-challenges-oil-firms-on-tax-break-lobbying-in-senate-bill","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-29 12:12:22","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-29 12:12:22","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8112","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":8083,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-06-26 10:08:42","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-26 10:08:42","post_content":"\n
According to new data gathered by Transparency International, lobbyists <\/a>are putting more and more pressure on MEPs on defense-related matters. In the last year, lobbyists from defense companies, trade associations, and consulting groups have organized 197 meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brussels has seen a boom in defense-related lobbying since the European Parliament's new term began in June 2024. Lobbyists from consulting firms, trade associations, and defense companies organized 197 meetings between June 2024 and June 17, 2025. This is a significant rise over the 78 meetings that were held throughout the preceding five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What explains the sharp rise in lobbying activity?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
As reported by <\/a>Transparency International, with an impressive 55 meetings over the last year, German MEPs were the most active in defense negotiations. Bulgaria came in second with 19, followed by the Czech Republic with 7, Poland and Latvia with 6, Spain with 15, Finland with 10, Italy and Denmark with 9 each, and Finland with 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Due in part to significant increases in their lobbying expenditures, certain interest groups have also demonstrated a greater presence in the Parliament than others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To discuss the future of European defense, the implementation of the European Defence Industrial Strategy (EDIS), and the development of a robust European defence sector, for instance, RTX, a US aerospace and defence manufacturer, has arranged ten meetings with industry and security and defence committee members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD) has hosted twelve meetings with MEPs thus far, compared to just two during the previous term. This is another noteworthy rise in contacts with EU officials in the Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
26 significant European corporations, including industry leaders like Airbus, Leonardo, Thales, and Rheinmetall, are represented by ASD, together with 23 national associations. According to the most recent data available in the EU Transparency Register, the group spent between \u20ac300,000 and \u20ac399,999 lobbying the EU institutions in 2023 and hired nine part-time lobbyists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Parliament revised its regulations in September 2023 to include all MEPs and their helpers in the transparency standards. This may help to explain the rise in the number of meetings, as they are required to disclose the specifics of each planned meeting with lobbyists. However, it also makes room for unofficial meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the start of their mandate in June of last year, 90 MEPs, primarily from the hard-right European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), the non-attached, and the far-right European Sovereign Nations (ESN) party, have failed to announce a single meeting.<\/p>\n","post_title":"New data shows defence sector ramping up lobbying efforts in EU Parliament","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"new-data-shows-defence-sector-ramping-up-lobbying-efforts-in-eu-parliament","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8083","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":8076,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_content":"\n
Major tech firms are supporting a lobbying effort <\/a>to ban US states from regulating AI models for ten years, a contentious move that has split the AI community and Donald Trump's Republican party. The Senate is being asked by lobbyists representing Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta to prevent states from passing their own artificial intelligence-related legislation for ten years, according to people with knowledge of the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last month, the US House of Representatives approved President Donald Trump's \"big and beautiful\" budget package, which included this clause. In order to approve the law before July 4, the Senate plans to unveil its own version this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On behalf of the members of the technological trade group, which include major corporations like Microsoft<\/a>, Amazon, Meta, and Google as well as smaller data<\/a>, energy, and infrastructure enterprises and legal firms, Chip Pickering, a former congressman and the CEO of INCOMPAS, is promoting this plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"For American leadership, this is the right policy at the right time,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Pickering told the Financial Times (FT). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"However, in terms of competition with China, it is equally important.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The AI Competition Center (AICC) was founded in 2024 by the industrial association INCOMPAS to influence lawmakers and authorities. As discussions over AI regulations heated up and the EU implemented a number of steps to regulate the industry, Amazon's cloud business and Meta joined the AICC subgroup earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What are critics saying about Big Tech lobbying?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Big tech corporations' position, according to critics, is aimed at maintaining their lead in the competition to create artificial general intelligence, which is defined as models that are generally more intelligent than humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republican legislators and the technology industry are also divided over the planned ban, with some voicing worries about preventing states from monitoring strong technologies that may damage the economy and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proponents contend that the clause is required to avoid a patchwork of uneven regional regulations that may hinder innovation and push the US farther behind China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a Senate hearing last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that it would be \"catastrophic\" for the US to mandate that tech firms achieve specific standards, such safety and transparency, before launching their products. With the EU's new AI Act, this could soon be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Silicon Valley vies to produce ever-more-powerful models, proponents of AI safety, including Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, have cautioned that depending only on self-regulation may have catastrophic societal repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans who are advocating for the proposal's inclusion are looking into whether it conforms with the Senate's intricate regulations, which stipulate that each clause in a \"budget reconciliation\" package must have an effect on the budget. This strategy is being used by the party to pass the law without the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Big tech lobbies to block state AI laws for 10 years","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"big-tech-lobbies-to-block-state-ai-laws-for-10-years","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8076","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":4},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\n\"The justification for CAMT was straightforward: for far too long, large corporations had exploited tax code loopholes to evade paying their fair share, sometimes paying zero federal taxes despite making billions in profits.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
According to the letter, the proposed modification is quite similar to a plan that Oklahoma Senator James Lankford submitted this year that would allow businesses to deduct \"intangible drilling and development costs\" from their CAMT revenue calculations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is the role of Senator Lankford in this?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
From 2019 to 2024, Lankford's primary industrial fundraising source was the fossil fuel business, which donated close to $500,000 to him. According to one analysis on the Lankford plan, deductions for intangible drilling costs\u2014which relate to expenses incurred prior to drilling, such as personnel and equipment\u2014have been in place since 1913, making them the oldest and largest fossil fuel subsidy in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the letters, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"Big Oil now wants this deduction to apply not only for their taxable income but also for book income purposes.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
In other words, if passed, this clause would lower or possibly completely remove oil and gas corporations' tax obligations under CAMT, enabling them to pay no federal income taxes at all.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Democratic senator challenges oil firms on tax break lobbying in Senate bill","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"democratic-senator-challenges-oil-firms-on-tax-break-lobbying-in-senate-bill","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-29 12:12:22","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-29 12:12:22","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8112","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":8083,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-06-26 10:08:42","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-26 10:08:42","post_content":"\n
According to new data gathered by Transparency International, lobbyists <\/a>are putting more and more pressure on MEPs on defense-related matters. In the last year, lobbyists from defense companies, trade associations, and consulting groups have organized 197 meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brussels has seen a boom in defense-related lobbying since the European Parliament's new term began in June 2024. Lobbyists from consulting firms, trade associations, and defense companies organized 197 meetings between June 2024 and June 17, 2025. This is a significant rise over the 78 meetings that were held throughout the preceding five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What explains the sharp rise in lobbying activity?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
As reported by <\/a>Transparency International, with an impressive 55 meetings over the last year, German MEPs were the most active in defense negotiations. Bulgaria came in second with 19, followed by the Czech Republic with 7, Poland and Latvia with 6, Spain with 15, Finland with 10, Italy and Denmark with 9 each, and Finland with 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Due in part to significant increases in their lobbying expenditures, certain interest groups have also demonstrated a greater presence in the Parliament than others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To discuss the future of European defense, the implementation of the European Defence Industrial Strategy (EDIS), and the development of a robust European defence sector, for instance, RTX, a US aerospace and defence manufacturer, has arranged ten meetings with industry and security and defence committee members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD) has hosted twelve meetings with MEPs thus far, compared to just two during the previous term. This is another noteworthy rise in contacts with EU officials in the Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
26 significant European corporations, including industry leaders like Airbus, Leonardo, Thales, and Rheinmetall, are represented by ASD, together with 23 national associations. According to the most recent data available in the EU Transparency Register, the group spent between \u20ac300,000 and \u20ac399,999 lobbying the EU institutions in 2023 and hired nine part-time lobbyists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Parliament revised its regulations in September 2023 to include all MEPs and their helpers in the transparency standards. This may help to explain the rise in the number of meetings, as they are required to disclose the specifics of each planned meeting with lobbyists. However, it also makes room for unofficial meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the start of their mandate in June of last year, 90 MEPs, primarily from the hard-right European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), the non-attached, and the far-right European Sovereign Nations (ESN) party, have failed to announce a single meeting.<\/p>\n","post_title":"New data shows defence sector ramping up lobbying efforts in EU Parliament","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"new-data-shows-defence-sector-ramping-up-lobbying-efforts-in-eu-parliament","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8083","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":8076,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_content":"\n
Major tech firms are supporting a lobbying effort <\/a>to ban US states from regulating AI models for ten years, a contentious move that has split the AI community and Donald Trump's Republican party. The Senate is being asked by lobbyists representing Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta to prevent states from passing their own artificial intelligence-related legislation for ten years, according to people with knowledge of the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last month, the US House of Representatives approved President Donald Trump's \"big and beautiful\" budget package, which included this clause. In order to approve the law before July 4, the Senate plans to unveil its own version this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On behalf of the members of the technological trade group, which include major corporations like Microsoft<\/a>, Amazon, Meta, and Google as well as smaller data<\/a>, energy, and infrastructure enterprises and legal firms, Chip Pickering, a former congressman and the CEO of INCOMPAS, is promoting this plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"For American leadership, this is the right policy at the right time,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Pickering told the Financial Times (FT). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"However, in terms of competition with China, it is equally important.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The AI Competition Center (AICC) was founded in 2024 by the industrial association INCOMPAS to influence lawmakers and authorities. As discussions over AI regulations heated up and the EU implemented a number of steps to regulate the industry, Amazon's cloud business and Meta joined the AICC subgroup earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What are critics saying about Big Tech lobbying?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Big tech corporations' position, according to critics, is aimed at maintaining their lead in the competition to create artificial general intelligence, which is defined as models that are generally more intelligent than humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republican legislators and the technology industry are also divided over the planned ban, with some voicing worries about preventing states from monitoring strong technologies that may damage the economy and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proponents contend that the clause is required to avoid a patchwork of uneven regional regulations that may hinder innovation and push the US farther behind China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a Senate hearing last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that it would be \"catastrophic\" for the US to mandate that tech firms achieve specific standards, such safety and transparency, before launching their products. With the EU's new AI Act, this could soon be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Silicon Valley vies to produce ever-more-powerful models, proponents of AI safety, including Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, have cautioned that depending only on self-regulation may have catastrophic societal repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans who are advocating for the proposal's inclusion are looking into whether it conforms with the Senate's intricate regulations, which stipulate that each clause in a \"budget reconciliation\" package must have an effect on the budget. This strategy is being used by the party to pass the law without the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Big tech lobbies to block state AI laws for 10 years","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"big-tech-lobbies-to-block-state-ai-laws-for-10-years","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8076","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":4},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\n\n\"The justification for CAMT was straightforward: for far too long, large corporations had exploited tax code loopholes to evade paying their fair share, sometimes paying zero federal taxes despite making billions in profits.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
According to the letter, the proposed modification is quite similar to a plan that Oklahoma Senator James Lankford submitted this year that would allow businesses to deduct \"intangible drilling and development costs\" from their CAMT revenue calculations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is the role of Senator Lankford in this?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
From 2019 to 2024, Lankford's primary industrial fundraising source was the fossil fuel business, which donated close to $500,000 to him. According to one analysis on the Lankford plan, deductions for intangible drilling costs\u2014which relate to expenses incurred prior to drilling, such as personnel and equipment\u2014have been in place since 1913, making them the oldest and largest fossil fuel subsidy in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the letters, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"Big Oil now wants this deduction to apply not only for their taxable income but also for book income purposes.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
In other words, if passed, this clause would lower or possibly completely remove oil and gas corporations' tax obligations under CAMT, enabling them to pay no federal income taxes at all.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Democratic senator challenges oil firms on tax break lobbying in Senate bill","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"democratic-senator-challenges-oil-firms-on-tax-break-lobbying-in-senate-bill","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-29 12:12:22","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-29 12:12:22","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8112","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":8083,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-06-26 10:08:42","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-26 10:08:42","post_content":"\n
According to new data gathered by Transparency International, lobbyists <\/a>are putting more and more pressure on MEPs on defense-related matters. In the last year, lobbyists from defense companies, trade associations, and consulting groups have organized 197 meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brussels has seen a boom in defense-related lobbying since the European Parliament's new term began in June 2024. Lobbyists from consulting firms, trade associations, and defense companies organized 197 meetings between June 2024 and June 17, 2025. This is a significant rise over the 78 meetings that were held throughout the preceding five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What explains the sharp rise in lobbying activity?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
As reported by <\/a>Transparency International, with an impressive 55 meetings over the last year, German MEPs were the most active in defense negotiations. Bulgaria came in second with 19, followed by the Czech Republic with 7, Poland and Latvia with 6, Spain with 15, Finland with 10, Italy and Denmark with 9 each, and Finland with 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Due in part to significant increases in their lobbying expenditures, certain interest groups have also demonstrated a greater presence in the Parliament than others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To discuss the future of European defense, the implementation of the European Defence Industrial Strategy (EDIS), and the development of a robust European defence sector, for instance, RTX, a US aerospace and defence manufacturer, has arranged ten meetings with industry and security and defence committee members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD) has hosted twelve meetings with MEPs thus far, compared to just two during the previous term. This is another noteworthy rise in contacts with EU officials in the Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
26 significant European corporations, including industry leaders like Airbus, Leonardo, Thales, and Rheinmetall, are represented by ASD, together with 23 national associations. According to the most recent data available in the EU Transparency Register, the group spent between \u20ac300,000 and \u20ac399,999 lobbying the EU institutions in 2023 and hired nine part-time lobbyists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Parliament revised its regulations in September 2023 to include all MEPs and their helpers in the transparency standards. This may help to explain the rise in the number of meetings, as they are required to disclose the specifics of each planned meeting with lobbyists. However, it also makes room for unofficial meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the start of their mandate in June of last year, 90 MEPs, primarily from the hard-right European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), the non-attached, and the far-right European Sovereign Nations (ESN) party, have failed to announce a single meeting.<\/p>\n","post_title":"New data shows defence sector ramping up lobbying efforts in EU Parliament","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"new-data-shows-defence-sector-ramping-up-lobbying-efforts-in-eu-parliament","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8083","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":8076,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_content":"\n
Major tech firms are supporting a lobbying effort <\/a>to ban US states from regulating AI models for ten years, a contentious move that has split the AI community and Donald Trump's Republican party. The Senate is being asked by lobbyists representing Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta to prevent states from passing their own artificial intelligence-related legislation for ten years, according to people with knowledge of the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last month, the US House of Representatives approved President Donald Trump's \"big and beautiful\" budget package, which included this clause. In order to approve the law before July 4, the Senate plans to unveil its own version this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On behalf of the members of the technological trade group, which include major corporations like Microsoft<\/a>, Amazon, Meta, and Google as well as smaller data<\/a>, energy, and infrastructure enterprises and legal firms, Chip Pickering, a former congressman and the CEO of INCOMPAS, is promoting this plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"For American leadership, this is the right policy at the right time,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Pickering told the Financial Times (FT). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"However, in terms of competition with China, it is equally important.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The AI Competition Center (AICC) was founded in 2024 by the industrial association INCOMPAS to influence lawmakers and authorities. As discussions over AI regulations heated up and the EU implemented a number of steps to regulate the industry, Amazon's cloud business and Meta joined the AICC subgroup earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What are critics saying about Big Tech lobbying?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Big tech corporations' position, according to critics, is aimed at maintaining their lead in the competition to create artificial general intelligence, which is defined as models that are generally more intelligent than humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republican legislators and the technology industry are also divided over the planned ban, with some voicing worries about preventing states from monitoring strong technologies that may damage the economy and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proponents contend that the clause is required to avoid a patchwork of uneven regional regulations that may hinder innovation and push the US farther behind China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a Senate hearing last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that it would be \"catastrophic\" for the US to mandate that tech firms achieve specific standards, such safety and transparency, before launching their products. With the EU's new AI Act, this could soon be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Silicon Valley vies to produce ever-more-powerful models, proponents of AI safety, including Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, have cautioned that depending only on self-regulation may have catastrophic societal repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans who are advocating for the proposal's inclusion are looking into whether it conforms with the Senate's intricate regulations, which stipulate that each clause in a \"budget reconciliation\" package must have an effect on the budget. This strategy is being used by the party to pass the law without the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Big tech lobbies to block state AI laws for 10 years","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"big-tech-lobbies-to-block-state-ai-laws-for-10-years","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8076","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":4},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\nThe signatories added, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"The justification for CAMT was straightforward: for far too long, large corporations had exploited tax code loopholes to evade paying their fair share, sometimes paying zero federal taxes despite making billions in profits.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
According to the letter, the proposed modification is quite similar to a plan that Oklahoma Senator James Lankford submitted this year that would allow businesses to deduct \"intangible drilling and development costs\" from their CAMT revenue calculations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is the role of Senator Lankford in this?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
From 2019 to 2024, Lankford's primary industrial fundraising source was the fossil fuel business, which donated close to $500,000 to him. According to one analysis on the Lankford plan, deductions for intangible drilling costs\u2014which relate to expenses incurred prior to drilling, such as personnel and equipment\u2014have been in place since 1913, making them the oldest and largest fossil fuel subsidy in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the letters, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"Big Oil now wants this deduction to apply not only for their taxable income but also for book income purposes.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
In other words, if passed, this clause would lower or possibly completely remove oil and gas corporations' tax obligations under CAMT, enabling them to pay no federal income taxes at all.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Democratic senator challenges oil firms on tax break lobbying in Senate bill","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"democratic-senator-challenges-oil-firms-on-tax-break-lobbying-in-senate-bill","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-29 12:12:22","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-29 12:12:22","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8112","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":8083,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-06-26 10:08:42","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-26 10:08:42","post_content":"\n
According to new data gathered by Transparency International, lobbyists <\/a>are putting more and more pressure on MEPs on defense-related matters. In the last year, lobbyists from defense companies, trade associations, and consulting groups have organized 197 meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brussels has seen a boom in defense-related lobbying since the European Parliament's new term began in June 2024. Lobbyists from consulting firms, trade associations, and defense companies organized 197 meetings between June 2024 and June 17, 2025. This is a significant rise over the 78 meetings that were held throughout the preceding five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What explains the sharp rise in lobbying activity?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
As reported by <\/a>Transparency International, with an impressive 55 meetings over the last year, German MEPs were the most active in defense negotiations. Bulgaria came in second with 19, followed by the Czech Republic with 7, Poland and Latvia with 6, Spain with 15, Finland with 10, Italy and Denmark with 9 each, and Finland with 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Due in part to significant increases in their lobbying expenditures, certain interest groups have also demonstrated a greater presence in the Parliament than others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To discuss the future of European defense, the implementation of the European Defence Industrial Strategy (EDIS), and the development of a robust European defence sector, for instance, RTX, a US aerospace and defence manufacturer, has arranged ten meetings with industry and security and defence committee members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD) has hosted twelve meetings with MEPs thus far, compared to just two during the previous term. This is another noteworthy rise in contacts with EU officials in the Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
26 significant European corporations, including industry leaders like Airbus, Leonardo, Thales, and Rheinmetall, are represented by ASD, together with 23 national associations. According to the most recent data available in the EU Transparency Register, the group spent between \u20ac300,000 and \u20ac399,999 lobbying the EU institutions in 2023 and hired nine part-time lobbyists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Parliament revised its regulations in September 2023 to include all MEPs and their helpers in the transparency standards. This may help to explain the rise in the number of meetings, as they are required to disclose the specifics of each planned meeting with lobbyists. However, it also makes room for unofficial meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the start of their mandate in June of last year, 90 MEPs, primarily from the hard-right European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), the non-attached, and the far-right European Sovereign Nations (ESN) party, have failed to announce a single meeting.<\/p>\n","post_title":"New data shows defence sector ramping up lobbying efforts in EU Parliament","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"new-data-shows-defence-sector-ramping-up-lobbying-efforts-in-eu-parliament","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8083","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":8076,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_content":"\n
Major tech firms are supporting a lobbying effort <\/a>to ban US states from regulating AI models for ten years, a contentious move that has split the AI community and Donald Trump's Republican party. The Senate is being asked by lobbyists representing Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta to prevent states from passing their own artificial intelligence-related legislation for ten years, according to people with knowledge of the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last month, the US House of Representatives approved President Donald Trump's \"big and beautiful\" budget package, which included this clause. In order to approve the law before July 4, the Senate plans to unveil its own version this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On behalf of the members of the technological trade group, which include major corporations like Microsoft<\/a>, Amazon, Meta, and Google as well as smaller data<\/a>, energy, and infrastructure enterprises and legal firms, Chip Pickering, a former congressman and the CEO of INCOMPAS, is promoting this plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"For American leadership, this is the right policy at the right time,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Pickering told the Financial Times (FT). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"However, in terms of competition with China, it is equally important.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The AI Competition Center (AICC) was founded in 2024 by the industrial association INCOMPAS to influence lawmakers and authorities. As discussions over AI regulations heated up and the EU implemented a number of steps to regulate the industry, Amazon's cloud business and Meta joined the AICC subgroup earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What are critics saying about Big Tech lobbying?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Big tech corporations' position, according to critics, is aimed at maintaining their lead in the competition to create artificial general intelligence, which is defined as models that are generally more intelligent than humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republican legislators and the technology industry are also divided over the planned ban, with some voicing worries about preventing states from monitoring strong technologies that may damage the economy and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proponents contend that the clause is required to avoid a patchwork of uneven regional regulations that may hinder innovation and push the US farther behind China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a Senate hearing last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that it would be \"catastrophic\" for the US to mandate that tech firms achieve specific standards, such safety and transparency, before launching their products. With the EU's new AI Act, this could soon be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Silicon Valley vies to produce ever-more-powerful models, proponents of AI safety, including Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, have cautioned that depending only on self-regulation may have catastrophic societal repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans who are advocating for the proposal's inclusion are looking into whether it conforms with the Senate's intricate regulations, which stipulate that each clause in a \"budget reconciliation\" package must have an effect on the budget. This strategy is being used by the party to pass the law without the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Big tech lobbies to block state AI laws for 10 years","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"big-tech-lobbies-to-block-state-ai-laws-for-10-years","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8076","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":4},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\nHow would CAMT changes benefit big oil companies?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The signatories added, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"The justification for CAMT was straightforward: for far too long, large corporations had exploited tax code loopholes to evade paying their fair share, sometimes paying zero federal taxes despite making billions in profits.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
According to the letter, the proposed modification is quite similar to a plan that Oklahoma Senator James Lankford submitted this year that would allow businesses to deduct \"intangible drilling and development costs\" from their CAMT revenue calculations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is the role of Senator Lankford in this?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
From 2019 to 2024, Lankford's primary industrial fundraising source was the fossil fuel business, which donated close to $500,000 to him. According to one analysis on the Lankford plan, deductions for intangible drilling costs\u2014which relate to expenses incurred prior to drilling, such as personnel and equipment\u2014have been in place since 1913, making them the oldest and largest fossil fuel subsidy in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the letters, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"Big Oil now wants this deduction to apply not only for their taxable income but also for book income purposes.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
In other words, if passed, this clause would lower or possibly completely remove oil and gas corporations' tax obligations under CAMT, enabling them to pay no federal income taxes at all.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Democratic senator challenges oil firms on tax break lobbying in Senate bill","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"democratic-senator-challenges-oil-firms-on-tax-break-lobbying-in-senate-bill","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-29 12:12:22","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-29 12:12:22","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8112","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":8083,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-06-26 10:08:42","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-26 10:08:42","post_content":"\n
According to new data gathered by Transparency International, lobbyists <\/a>are putting more and more pressure on MEPs on defense-related matters. In the last year, lobbyists from defense companies, trade associations, and consulting groups have organized 197 meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brussels has seen a boom in defense-related lobbying since the European Parliament's new term began in June 2024. Lobbyists from consulting firms, trade associations, and defense companies organized 197 meetings between June 2024 and June 17, 2025. This is a significant rise over the 78 meetings that were held throughout the preceding five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What explains the sharp rise in lobbying activity?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
As reported by <\/a>Transparency International, with an impressive 55 meetings over the last year, German MEPs were the most active in defense negotiations. Bulgaria came in second with 19, followed by the Czech Republic with 7, Poland and Latvia with 6, Spain with 15, Finland with 10, Italy and Denmark with 9 each, and Finland with 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Due in part to significant increases in their lobbying expenditures, certain interest groups have also demonstrated a greater presence in the Parliament than others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To discuss the future of European defense, the implementation of the European Defence Industrial Strategy (EDIS), and the development of a robust European defence sector, for instance, RTX, a US aerospace and defence manufacturer, has arranged ten meetings with industry and security and defence committee members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD) has hosted twelve meetings with MEPs thus far, compared to just two during the previous term. This is another noteworthy rise in contacts with EU officials in the Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
26 significant European corporations, including industry leaders like Airbus, Leonardo, Thales, and Rheinmetall, are represented by ASD, together with 23 national associations. According to the most recent data available in the EU Transparency Register, the group spent between \u20ac300,000 and \u20ac399,999 lobbying the EU institutions in 2023 and hired nine part-time lobbyists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Parliament revised its regulations in September 2023 to include all MEPs and their helpers in the transparency standards. This may help to explain the rise in the number of meetings, as they are required to disclose the specifics of each planned meeting with lobbyists. However, it also makes room for unofficial meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the start of their mandate in June of last year, 90 MEPs, primarily from the hard-right European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), the non-attached, and the far-right European Sovereign Nations (ESN) party, have failed to announce a single meeting.<\/p>\n","post_title":"New data shows defence sector ramping up lobbying efforts in EU Parliament","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"new-data-shows-defence-sector-ramping-up-lobbying-efforts-in-eu-parliament","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8083","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":8076,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_content":"\n
Major tech firms are supporting a lobbying effort <\/a>to ban US states from regulating AI models for ten years, a contentious move that has split the AI community and Donald Trump's Republican party. The Senate is being asked by lobbyists representing Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta to prevent states from passing their own artificial intelligence-related legislation for ten years, according to people with knowledge of the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last month, the US House of Representatives approved President Donald Trump's \"big and beautiful\" budget package, which included this clause. In order to approve the law before July 4, the Senate plans to unveil its own version this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On behalf of the members of the technological trade group, which include major corporations like Microsoft<\/a>, Amazon, Meta, and Google as well as smaller data<\/a>, energy, and infrastructure enterprises and legal firms, Chip Pickering, a former congressman and the CEO of INCOMPAS, is promoting this plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"For American leadership, this is the right policy at the right time,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Pickering told the Financial Times (FT). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"However, in terms of competition with China, it is equally important.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The AI Competition Center (AICC) was founded in 2024 by the industrial association INCOMPAS to influence lawmakers and authorities. As discussions over AI regulations heated up and the EU implemented a number of steps to regulate the industry, Amazon's cloud business and Meta joined the AICC subgroup earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What are critics saying about Big Tech lobbying?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Big tech corporations' position, according to critics, is aimed at maintaining their lead in the competition to create artificial general intelligence, which is defined as models that are generally more intelligent than humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republican legislators and the technology industry are also divided over the planned ban, with some voicing worries about preventing states from monitoring strong technologies that may damage the economy and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proponents contend that the clause is required to avoid a patchwork of uneven regional regulations that may hinder innovation and push the US farther behind China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a Senate hearing last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that it would be \"catastrophic\" for the US to mandate that tech firms achieve specific standards, such safety and transparency, before launching their products. With the EU's new AI Act, this could soon be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Silicon Valley vies to produce ever-more-powerful models, proponents of AI safety, including Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, have cautioned that depending only on self-regulation may have catastrophic societal repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans who are advocating for the proposal's inclusion are looking into whether it conforms with the Senate's intricate regulations, which stipulate that each clause in a \"budget reconciliation\" package must have an effect on the budget. This strategy is being used by the party to pass the law without the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Big tech lobbies to block state AI laws for 10 years","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"big-tech-lobbies-to-block-state-ai-laws-for-10-years","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8076","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":4},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\nThe senators requested responses by July 9th on how much each company has spent and plans to spend this year on lobbying for the provision, how much each has contributed to elected officials who support tax cuts on fossil fuels, and how much tax reduction each company would experience if the provision is finalised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How would CAMT changes benefit big oil companies?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The signatories added, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"The justification for CAMT was straightforward: for far too long, large corporations had exploited tax code loopholes to evade paying their fair share, sometimes paying zero federal taxes despite making billions in profits.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
According to the letter, the proposed modification is quite similar to a plan that Oklahoma Senator James Lankford submitted this year that would allow businesses to deduct \"intangible drilling and development costs\" from their CAMT revenue calculations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is the role of Senator Lankford in this?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
From 2019 to 2024, Lankford's primary industrial fundraising source was the fossil fuel business, which donated close to $500,000 to him. According to one analysis on the Lankford plan, deductions for intangible drilling costs\u2014which relate to expenses incurred prior to drilling, such as personnel and equipment\u2014have been in place since 1913, making them the oldest and largest fossil fuel subsidy in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the letters, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"Big Oil now wants this deduction to apply not only for their taxable income but also for book income purposes.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
In other words, if passed, this clause would lower or possibly completely remove oil and gas corporations' tax obligations under CAMT, enabling them to pay no federal income taxes at all.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Democratic senator challenges oil firms on tax break lobbying in Senate bill","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"democratic-senator-challenges-oil-firms-on-tax-break-lobbying-in-senate-bill","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-29 12:12:22","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-29 12:12:22","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8112","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":8083,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-06-26 10:08:42","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-26 10:08:42","post_content":"\n
According to new data gathered by Transparency International, lobbyists <\/a>are putting more and more pressure on MEPs on defense-related matters. In the last year, lobbyists from defense companies, trade associations, and consulting groups have organized 197 meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brussels has seen a boom in defense-related lobbying since the European Parliament's new term began in June 2024. Lobbyists from consulting firms, trade associations, and defense companies organized 197 meetings between June 2024 and June 17, 2025. This is a significant rise over the 78 meetings that were held throughout the preceding five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What explains the sharp rise in lobbying activity?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
As reported by <\/a>Transparency International, with an impressive 55 meetings over the last year, German MEPs were the most active in defense negotiations. Bulgaria came in second with 19, followed by the Czech Republic with 7, Poland and Latvia with 6, Spain with 15, Finland with 10, Italy and Denmark with 9 each, and Finland with 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Due in part to significant increases in their lobbying expenditures, certain interest groups have also demonstrated a greater presence in the Parliament than others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To discuss the future of European defense, the implementation of the European Defence Industrial Strategy (EDIS), and the development of a robust European defence sector, for instance, RTX, a US aerospace and defence manufacturer, has arranged ten meetings with industry and security and defence committee members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD) has hosted twelve meetings with MEPs thus far, compared to just two during the previous term. This is another noteworthy rise in contacts with EU officials in the Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
26 significant European corporations, including industry leaders like Airbus, Leonardo, Thales, and Rheinmetall, are represented by ASD, together with 23 national associations. According to the most recent data available in the EU Transparency Register, the group spent between \u20ac300,000 and \u20ac399,999 lobbying the EU institutions in 2023 and hired nine part-time lobbyists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Parliament revised its regulations in September 2023 to include all MEPs and their helpers in the transparency standards. This may help to explain the rise in the number of meetings, as they are required to disclose the specifics of each planned meeting with lobbyists. However, it also makes room for unofficial meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the start of their mandate in June of last year, 90 MEPs, primarily from the hard-right European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), the non-attached, and the far-right European Sovereign Nations (ESN) party, have failed to announce a single meeting.<\/p>\n","post_title":"New data shows defence sector ramping up lobbying efforts in EU Parliament","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"new-data-shows-defence-sector-ramping-up-lobbying-efforts-in-eu-parliament","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8083","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":8076,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_content":"\n
Major tech firms are supporting a lobbying effort <\/a>to ban US states from regulating AI models for ten years, a contentious move that has split the AI community and Donald Trump's Republican party. The Senate is being asked by lobbyists representing Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta to prevent states from passing their own artificial intelligence-related legislation for ten years, according to people with knowledge of the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last month, the US House of Representatives approved President Donald Trump's \"big and beautiful\" budget package, which included this clause. In order to approve the law before July 4, the Senate plans to unveil its own version this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On behalf of the members of the technological trade group, which include major corporations like Microsoft<\/a>, Amazon, Meta, and Google as well as smaller data<\/a>, energy, and infrastructure enterprises and legal firms, Chip Pickering, a former congressman and the CEO of INCOMPAS, is promoting this plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"For American leadership, this is the right policy at the right time,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Pickering told the Financial Times (FT). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"However, in terms of competition with China, it is equally important.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The AI Competition Center (AICC) was founded in 2024 by the industrial association INCOMPAS to influence lawmakers and authorities. As discussions over AI regulations heated up and the EU implemented a number of steps to regulate the industry, Amazon's cloud business and Meta joined the AICC subgroup earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What are critics saying about Big Tech lobbying?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Big tech corporations' position, according to critics, is aimed at maintaining their lead in the competition to create artificial general intelligence, which is defined as models that are generally more intelligent than humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republican legislators and the technology industry are also divided over the planned ban, with some voicing worries about preventing states from monitoring strong technologies that may damage the economy and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proponents contend that the clause is required to avoid a patchwork of uneven regional regulations that may hinder innovation and push the US farther behind China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a Senate hearing last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that it would be \"catastrophic\" for the US to mandate that tech firms achieve specific standards, such safety and transparency, before launching their products. With the EU's new AI Act, this could soon be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Silicon Valley vies to produce ever-more-powerful models, proponents of AI safety, including Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, have cautioned that depending only on self-regulation may have catastrophic societal repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans who are advocating for the proposal's inclusion are looking into whether it conforms with the Senate's intricate regulations, which stipulate that each clause in a \"budget reconciliation\" package must have an effect on the budget. This strategy is being used by the party to pass the law without the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Big tech lobbies to block state AI laws for 10 years","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"big-tech-lobbies-to-block-state-ai-laws-for-10-years","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8076","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":4},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\nWhat fossil fuel tax loophole is being proposed?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The senators requested responses by July 9th on how much each company has spent and plans to spend this year on lobbying for the provision, how much each has contributed to elected officials who support tax cuts on fossil fuels, and how much tax reduction each company would experience if the provision is finalised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How would CAMT changes benefit big oil companies?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The signatories added, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"The justification for CAMT was straightforward: for far too long, large corporations had exploited tax code loopholes to evade paying their fair share, sometimes paying zero federal taxes despite making billions in profits.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
According to the letter, the proposed modification is quite similar to a plan that Oklahoma Senator James Lankford submitted this year that would allow businesses to deduct \"intangible drilling and development costs\" from their CAMT revenue calculations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is the role of Senator Lankford in this?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
From 2019 to 2024, Lankford's primary industrial fundraising source was the fossil fuel business, which donated close to $500,000 to him. According to one analysis on the Lankford plan, deductions for intangible drilling costs\u2014which relate to expenses incurred prior to drilling, such as personnel and equipment\u2014have been in place since 1913, making them the oldest and largest fossil fuel subsidy in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the letters, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"Big Oil now wants this deduction to apply not only for their taxable income but also for book income purposes.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
In other words, if passed, this clause would lower or possibly completely remove oil and gas corporations' tax obligations under CAMT, enabling them to pay no federal income taxes at all.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Democratic senator challenges oil firms on tax break lobbying in Senate bill","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"democratic-senator-challenges-oil-firms-on-tax-break-lobbying-in-senate-bill","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-29 12:12:22","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-29 12:12:22","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8112","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":8083,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-06-26 10:08:42","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-26 10:08:42","post_content":"\n
According to new data gathered by Transparency International, lobbyists <\/a>are putting more and more pressure on MEPs on defense-related matters. In the last year, lobbyists from defense companies, trade associations, and consulting groups have organized 197 meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brussels has seen a boom in defense-related lobbying since the European Parliament's new term began in June 2024. Lobbyists from consulting firms, trade associations, and defense companies organized 197 meetings between June 2024 and June 17, 2025. This is a significant rise over the 78 meetings that were held throughout the preceding five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What explains the sharp rise in lobbying activity?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
As reported by <\/a>Transparency International, with an impressive 55 meetings over the last year, German MEPs were the most active in defense negotiations. Bulgaria came in second with 19, followed by the Czech Republic with 7, Poland and Latvia with 6, Spain with 15, Finland with 10, Italy and Denmark with 9 each, and Finland with 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Due in part to significant increases in their lobbying expenditures, certain interest groups have also demonstrated a greater presence in the Parliament than others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To discuss the future of European defense, the implementation of the European Defence Industrial Strategy (EDIS), and the development of a robust European defence sector, for instance, RTX, a US aerospace and defence manufacturer, has arranged ten meetings with industry and security and defence committee members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD) has hosted twelve meetings with MEPs thus far, compared to just two during the previous term. This is another noteworthy rise in contacts with EU officials in the Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
26 significant European corporations, including industry leaders like Airbus, Leonardo, Thales, and Rheinmetall, are represented by ASD, together with 23 national associations. According to the most recent data available in the EU Transparency Register, the group spent between \u20ac300,000 and \u20ac399,999 lobbying the EU institutions in 2023 and hired nine part-time lobbyists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Parliament revised its regulations in September 2023 to include all MEPs and their helpers in the transparency standards. This may help to explain the rise in the number of meetings, as they are required to disclose the specifics of each planned meeting with lobbyists. However, it also makes room for unofficial meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the start of their mandate in June of last year, 90 MEPs, primarily from the hard-right European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), the non-attached, and the far-right European Sovereign Nations (ESN) party, have failed to announce a single meeting.<\/p>\n","post_title":"New data shows defence sector ramping up lobbying efforts in EU Parliament","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"new-data-shows-defence-sector-ramping-up-lobbying-efforts-in-eu-parliament","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8083","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":8076,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_content":"\n
Major tech firms are supporting a lobbying effort <\/a>to ban US states from regulating AI models for ten years, a contentious move that has split the AI community and Donald Trump's Republican party. The Senate is being asked by lobbyists representing Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta to prevent states from passing their own artificial intelligence-related legislation for ten years, according to people with knowledge of the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last month, the US House of Representatives approved President Donald Trump's \"big and beautiful\" budget package, which included this clause. In order to approve the law before July 4, the Senate plans to unveil its own version this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On behalf of the members of the technological trade group, which include major corporations like Microsoft<\/a>, Amazon, Meta, and Google as well as smaller data<\/a>, energy, and infrastructure enterprises and legal firms, Chip Pickering, a former congressman and the CEO of INCOMPAS, is promoting this plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"For American leadership, this is the right policy at the right time,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Pickering told the Financial Times (FT). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"However, in terms of competition with China, it is equally important.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The AI Competition Center (AICC) was founded in 2024 by the industrial association INCOMPAS to influence lawmakers and authorities. As discussions over AI regulations heated up and the EU implemented a number of steps to regulate the industry, Amazon's cloud business and Meta joined the AICC subgroup earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What are critics saying about Big Tech lobbying?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Big tech corporations' position, according to critics, is aimed at maintaining their lead in the competition to create artificial general intelligence, which is defined as models that are generally more intelligent than humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republican legislators and the technology industry are also divided over the planned ban, with some voicing worries about preventing states from monitoring strong technologies that may damage the economy and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proponents contend that the clause is required to avoid a patchwork of uneven regional regulations that may hinder innovation and push the US farther behind China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a Senate hearing last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that it would be \"catastrophic\" for the US to mandate that tech firms achieve specific standards, such safety and transparency, before launching their products. With the EU's new AI Act, this could soon be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Silicon Valley vies to produce ever-more-powerful models, proponents of AI safety, including Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, have cautioned that depending only on self-regulation may have catastrophic societal repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans who are advocating for the proposal's inclusion are looking into whether it conforms with the Senate's intricate regulations, which stipulate that each clause in a \"budget reconciliation\" package must have an effect on the budget. This strategy is being used by the party to pass the law without the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Big tech lobbies to block state AI laws for 10 years","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"big-tech-lobbies-to-block-state-ai-laws-for-10-years","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8076","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":4},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\nAccording to the letters, which are sent to Brendan McCracken, CEO of Ovintiv, and Ryan Lance, CEO of ConocoPhillips, both businesses might \"benefit tremendously from this provision.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What fossil fuel tax loophole is being proposed?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The senators requested responses by July 9th on how much each company has spent and plans to spend this year on lobbying for the provision, how much each has contributed to elected officials who support tax cuts on fossil fuels, and how much tax reduction each company would experience if the provision is finalised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How would CAMT changes benefit big oil companies?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The signatories added, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"The justification for CAMT was straightforward: for far too long, large corporations had exploited tax code loopholes to evade paying their fair share, sometimes paying zero federal taxes despite making billions in profits.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
According to the letter, the proposed modification is quite similar to a plan that Oklahoma Senator James Lankford submitted this year that would allow businesses to deduct \"intangible drilling and development costs\" from their CAMT revenue calculations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is the role of Senator Lankford in this?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
From 2019 to 2024, Lankford's primary industrial fundraising source was the fossil fuel business, which donated close to $500,000 to him. According to one analysis on the Lankford plan, deductions for intangible drilling costs\u2014which relate to expenses incurred prior to drilling, such as personnel and equipment\u2014have been in place since 1913, making them the oldest and largest fossil fuel subsidy in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the letters, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"Big Oil now wants this deduction to apply not only for their taxable income but also for book income purposes.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
In other words, if passed, this clause would lower or possibly completely remove oil and gas corporations' tax obligations under CAMT, enabling them to pay no federal income taxes at all.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Democratic senator challenges oil firms on tax break lobbying in Senate bill","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"democratic-senator-challenges-oil-firms-on-tax-break-lobbying-in-senate-bill","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-29 12:12:22","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-29 12:12:22","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8112","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":8083,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-06-26 10:08:42","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-26 10:08:42","post_content":"\n
According to new data gathered by Transparency International, lobbyists <\/a>are putting more and more pressure on MEPs on defense-related matters. In the last year, lobbyists from defense companies, trade associations, and consulting groups have organized 197 meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brussels has seen a boom in defense-related lobbying since the European Parliament's new term began in June 2024. Lobbyists from consulting firms, trade associations, and defense companies organized 197 meetings between June 2024 and June 17, 2025. This is a significant rise over the 78 meetings that were held throughout the preceding five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What explains the sharp rise in lobbying activity?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
As reported by <\/a>Transparency International, with an impressive 55 meetings over the last year, German MEPs were the most active in defense negotiations. Bulgaria came in second with 19, followed by the Czech Republic with 7, Poland and Latvia with 6, Spain with 15, Finland with 10, Italy and Denmark with 9 each, and Finland with 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Due in part to significant increases in their lobbying expenditures, certain interest groups have also demonstrated a greater presence in the Parliament than others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To discuss the future of European defense, the implementation of the European Defence Industrial Strategy (EDIS), and the development of a robust European defence sector, for instance, RTX, a US aerospace and defence manufacturer, has arranged ten meetings with industry and security and defence committee members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD) has hosted twelve meetings with MEPs thus far, compared to just two during the previous term. This is another noteworthy rise in contacts with EU officials in the Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
26 significant European corporations, including industry leaders like Airbus, Leonardo, Thales, and Rheinmetall, are represented by ASD, together with 23 national associations. According to the most recent data available in the EU Transparency Register, the group spent between \u20ac300,000 and \u20ac399,999 lobbying the EU institutions in 2023 and hired nine part-time lobbyists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Parliament revised its regulations in September 2023 to include all MEPs and their helpers in the transparency standards. This may help to explain the rise in the number of meetings, as they are required to disclose the specifics of each planned meeting with lobbyists. However, it also makes room for unofficial meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the start of their mandate in June of last year, 90 MEPs, primarily from the hard-right European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), the non-attached, and the far-right European Sovereign Nations (ESN) party, have failed to announce a single meeting.<\/p>\n","post_title":"New data shows defence sector ramping up lobbying efforts in EU Parliament","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"new-data-shows-defence-sector-ramping-up-lobbying-efforts-in-eu-parliament","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-28 10:15:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8083","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":8076,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-23 18:19:07","post_content":"\n
Major tech firms are supporting a lobbying effort <\/a>to ban US states from regulating AI models for ten years, a contentious move that has split the AI community and Donald Trump's Republican party. The Senate is being asked by lobbyists representing Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta to prevent states from passing their own artificial intelligence-related legislation for ten years, according to people with knowledge of the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last month, the US House of Representatives approved President Donald Trump's \"big and beautiful\" budget package, which included this clause. In order to approve the law before July 4, the Senate plans to unveil its own version this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On behalf of the members of the technological trade group, which include major corporations like Microsoft<\/a>, Amazon, Meta, and Google as well as smaller data<\/a>, energy, and infrastructure enterprises and legal firms, Chip Pickering, a former congressman and the CEO of INCOMPAS, is promoting this plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"For American leadership, this is the right policy at the right time,\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Pickering told the Financial Times (FT). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"However, in terms of competition with China, it is equally important.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The AI Competition Center (AICC) was founded in 2024 by the industrial association INCOMPAS to influence lawmakers and authorities. As discussions over AI regulations heated up and the EU implemented a number of steps to regulate the industry, Amazon's cloud business and Meta joined the AICC subgroup earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What are critics saying about Big Tech lobbying?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Big tech corporations' position, according to critics, is aimed at maintaining their lead in the competition to create artificial general intelligence, which is defined as models that are generally more intelligent than humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republican legislators and the technology industry are also divided over the planned ban, with some voicing worries about preventing states from monitoring strong technologies that may damage the economy and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proponents contend that the clause is required to avoid a patchwork of uneven regional regulations that may hinder innovation and push the US farther behind China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a Senate hearing last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that it would be \"catastrophic\" for the US to mandate that tech firms achieve specific standards, such safety and transparency, before launching their products. With the EU's new AI Act, this could soon be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Silicon Valley vies to produce ever-more-powerful models, proponents of AI safety, including Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, have cautioned that depending only on self-regulation may have catastrophic societal repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans who are advocating for the proposal's inclusion are looking into whether it conforms with the Senate's intricate regulations, which stipulate that each clause in a \"budget reconciliation\" package must have an effect on the budget. This strategy is being used by the party to pass the law without the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Big tech lobbies to block state AI laws for 10 years","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"big-tech-lobbies-to-block-state-ai-laws-for-10-years","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-25 18:27:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=8076","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":4},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
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