revolving door

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 tale of lobbyists, lawmakers and the revolving door that just keeps [...]

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 President Obama, earned nearly $5.2 million in [...]

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 contractor before he became a public [...]