Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Obama booting lobbyists from federal advisory panels

“It's taken me years to learn what the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade is,” said Robert Vastine, a lobbyist for the Coalition of Service Industries who also serves as chairman of a trade advisory board.

Boo-fucking-hoo.
Lobbyists are going to lose their special access, influence and in some cases, second paychecks, and federal regulators are going to have to do more of their own research on the areas they're responsible for regulating and not be spoon-fed by the special interest groups.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/26/AR2009112602362.html#

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