Friday, March 18, 2016

OBAMA HIRES LOBBYISTS

“On President Obama's first day in office
in
2009, he issued an executive order to close ‘the revolving
door’
between government and the private sector by
restricting the hiring of any registered lobbyists for
positions in his administration
. But Obama himself eventually
hired at least seventy lobbyists, many of whom then returned
to lobbying
after a stint in his administration. So much
for Obama's campaign pledge that he would ‘tell the
.
corporate lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in
Washington are over
. ‘The executive order has since been
dropped, and the number of business lobbyists in
Washington has continued
rising rapidly.”



Jeff Madrick, “How the Lobbyists Win in Washington,” April 7, 2016, in The New York Review, April 7, 2016, pp: 50-52.