Sen. Feinstein’s Chief of Staff has left her office to join Intel, according to this report. For [Peter] Cleveland, signing on with Intel is a terrific opportunity to work for a company he has long admired. But, he says, the job won’t be so very different from the 18 years he spent on the other […]
It may have seemed that lobbyists were “kicked around” on the campaign trail this year, according to this National Journal blog entry. Yet, [Patrick] Griffin called some of the candidates’ solutions on the campaign trail “distortions and caricatures.” He said there are useful ways to tackle revolving-door problems, but not by “embracing all of this debate […]
Washingtonian says that the massive financial crisis has left some winners: lobbyists! It was a fairy tale brought to life: Wall Street had been trapped in a dungeon by evil mortgages, and it was up to Washington to save them. Legislators, lobbyists, and administration officials struggled to slay the dragons of bad debt while being […]