Revolving Door

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In Washington, the Revolving Door Is Hazardous to Your Health

Bill Moyers | Posted 10.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Liz Fowler, Campaign Finance Reform, Michelle Easton, Senate Finance Committee, David Graham Phillips, Public Option, Lobbying, Health Care Reform, Revolving Door, Washington DC, Max Baucus, Barack Obama, Wellpoint, Politics News

You can't tell the players without a scorecard in the old Washington shell game. Lobbyist out, lobbyist in. They've been plowing this ground for years, and the soil has never been so fertile.

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A Crowd's Take on the Health Care Industry's Revolving Door

Adam Clark Estes | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senate, Congress, Lobbying, House of Representatives, Lobbyists, Health Care Reform, Revolving Door, Max Baucus, Health Care, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Politics News

Earlier this summer, The Washington Post published an eye-catching analysis of the revolving door between Congress and the health industry. The newspaper estimated that at least 350 former staffers and members of Congress are now lobbying their former Capitol Hill colleagues on legislation to change the health care system.

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You're Appointing Who? Please Obama, Say It's Not So!

Jeffrey Smith | Posted 08.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Dr. P. M. Bhargava, President Obama, Infertility, Milk, Revolving Door, Dennis Wolff, Food Safety, Rbgh, Organic Trade Association, Food Safety Czar, Organic, Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1, International Dairy Foods Association, FDA Policy, Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture, Fda, Food Related Illness, GM Foods, Asthma, Michael Taylor. Safety Testing, Cancer, Genetically Modified Foods, American Academy of Environmental Medicine, GMO Labels, Genetically Engineered Foods, Gastrointestinal Disorder, Substantially Equivalent, Inflammation, Immune Problems, Genetically Modified Organisms, Food Labels, Accelerated Aging, Milk Supply, Igf-1, Rbst, Monsanto, Ohio Governor Strickland, Genetically Engineered, Insulin Regulation, Governor Ed Rendell, Food Supply, GE Foods, Bovine Growth Hormone, Gmos, Food and Drug Administration, Allergies, Multiple Chronic Illness, Green News

The person who may be responsible for more food-related illness and death than anyone in history has just been made the US food safety czar.

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Obama Versus "The Lobbyists"

Bara Vaida | Posted 04.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Revolving Door, K Street Lobbyists, Special Interests, K Street, Obama Lobbyists, Lobbyists, Obama Special Interests, K Street Money, Politics News

While Obama has been railing against lobbyists, he has been hiring lobbyists too. 11 percent of Obama's 267 senior staff and nominees were registered lobbyists in the past five years.

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President Obama Opens Up Records, Shuts the Revolving Door

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Revolving Door, Executive Orders, Lobbying Ban, Presidential Records, Ethics Commitments of the Executive Branch, President Barack Obama, Steven Griles, Rick Davis, Vickie Iseman, Politics News

By breaking the nexus between lobbyists and government departments, Obama is doing something that hasn't been done before. He has raised the ethical bar higher than any previous president.

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