President Obama’s “ethics czar,” is going to Europe as an ambassador — and it’s causing anxiety among government watchdog groups who admire the work accomplished under his watch. Norman Eisen, who founded a government oversight group called Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington before joining the administration, instituted More…
The New York Times published a mammoth story yesterday on the Minerals Management Service office in Louisiana, its leader, Chris Oynes, and the state’s dependence on the oil industry. Oynes, who left the agency in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon spill, had not spoken publicly before now. More…
Following a story in The Washington Post yesterday about the large number of oil industry lobbyists who formerly worked in the federal government, Michael Bromwich, who is in charge of restructuring the Interior Department’s offshore drilling oversight bureau, pledged to put restrictions on these so-called revolving door issues.
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In January of 2007, just days after the Democrats took control of the House for the first time in over a decade, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) vowed “to close the revolving door between government officials and lobbying firms.”
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From CQ’s Jonathan Allen comes a heartwarming More…
The New York Times dug through some new financial records to discover that Wall Street has been nearly as good to Larry Summers as Larry Summers is now being to Wall Street.
Mr. Summers, the former Treasury secretary and Harvard president who is now the chief economic adviser to
Yesterday we ran a post raising a red flag on Rep. Tom Davis’s (R-Va.) claim that his new, seven-figure consulting gig is not representative of the “revolving door” that so often lands former lawmakers in high-powered K-Street firms by simple virtue of their ties to Congress.
Rep. Tom Davis, the seven-term Virginian who’s retiring this year, may have taken a seven-figure position with Deloitte Consulting. But don’t accuse him of being just another beneficiary of the “revolving door.” According to The Washington Post, Davis says he doesn’t fit the category because he was a private More…
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