In This Issue:

- Making Decisions on Corporate Campaign Expenditures

- What’s in Store in Congresson Campaign Finance Reform?

- DC Circuit Reversed Van Hollen. Players Changed Tactics to Avoid Disclosure. Did It Matter in 2012?

- Capitol Hill Recruiting -‘Tis the Season!

- Grassroots Lobbying Laws -A Growing Trend

- Goldman Sachs Pays First-Of-Its-Kind Settlement to Close Pay to Play Action with the SEC

- Breakdown of New FCPA Guidance

- New Cycle; New Contribution Limits?

- Excerpt from Goldman Sachs Pays First-Of-Its-Kind Settlement to Close Pay to Play Action with the SEC:

On September 27, 2012, Goldman Sachs agreed to pay $12 million to settle claims with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) alleging that one of its employees engaged in a pay-to-play scheme.