 pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD
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Re: Ban all Lobbyists.. Don't worry. These lobbyists weren't in any danger of being unemployed for too long.
»news.yahoo.com/s/politico/200901···co/18128
said by the article :
So far, though, at least a dozen former lobbyists have found top jobs in his administration, according to an analysis done by Republican sources and corroborated by Politico.
Obama aides did not challenge the the list of lobbyists appointed to administration jobs, but they stressed that former lobbyists comprise a fraction of the more than 8,000 employees who will be hired by the new administration. And they pointed out that before Obama made his campaign-trail promise, he issued a more complete - and more nuanced - policy on former lobbyists.
Formalized in a recent presidential executive order, it forbids executive branch employees from working in an agency, or on a program, for which they have lobbied in the last two years.
Yet in the past few days, a number of exceptions have been granted, with the administration conceding at least two waivers and that a handful of other appointees will recuse themselves from dealing with matters on which they lobbied within the two-year window.
To be fair, this article was originally posted on 01/28/2009, not too long after he was sworn in.
Some more links:
»www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/2···909.html
»www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-kel···378.html
»abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=···8&page=1
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 MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
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Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | said by pnh102:To be fair, this article was originally posted on 01/28/2009, not too long after he was sworn in. Did you even look at the list of lobbyists from your link? I'm not too concerned about the agenda of people who lobby for the likes of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
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pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
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Mount Airy, MD | said by Matt:Did you even look at the list of lobbyists from your link? I'm not too concerned about the agenda of people who lobby for the likes of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. And that makes them good? The policy put in place made no distinction in the employment of previous lobbyists.
There was one lobbyist who worked for Goldman Sachs. Is that OK too?
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to Matt
said by Matt:Did you even look at the list of lobbyists from your link? I'm not too concerned about the agenda of people who lobby for the likes of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. What about Obama's administrators enabling surprise tobacco drug testing dragnet at middle schools along with arresting the parents for endangerment of any kid who comes up positive? Second hand smoke kills according to the prosecutor, your now facing attempted manslaughter. |
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MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | reply to pnh102
said by pnh102:said by Matt:Did you even look at the list of lobbyists from your link? I'm not too concerned about the agenda of people who lobby for the likes of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. And that makes them good? The policy put in place made no distinction in the employment of previous lobbyists. There was one lobbyist who worked for Goldman Sachs. Is that OK too? We're not talking about the same thing. Please read what I quoted from my link below, as I'm not sure you read the link at all.
said by article :
The initiative is aimed at a system of advisory committees so vast that federal officials don't have exact numbers for its size; the most recent estimates tally nearly 1,000 panels with total membership exceeding 60,000 people.
Under the policy, which is being phased in over the coming months, none of the more than 13,000 lobbyists in Washington would be able to hold seats on the committees, which advise agencies on trade rules, troop levels, environmental regulations, consumer protections and thousands of other government policies.
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 GlobalMindDomino Dude, POWER Systems GuyPremium
join:2001-10-29
Hollywood, FL | reply to Matt
said by Matt:I'm not too concerned about the agenda of people who lobby for the likes of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. Yea but be concerned about who is actually behind some of those supposed good will organizations.
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