realclearpolitics.com - 1/31/2009
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November 11, 2008 Obama Announces Transition Ethics Rules By Kyle Trygstad WASHINGTON -- At an afternoon press briefing in the Transition Team offices for President-elect Barack Obama, transition team co-chairman John Podesta said this would be "the most open and transparent transition in ...
thinkprogress.org - 1/29/2009
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thinkprogress.org —
Yesterday, ThinkProgress provided our readers an opportunity to
ask John Podesta questions pertaining to his service on...
the Obama transition team. You responded with great enthusiasm, offering more than 100 comments and questions. Thank you! I sat ...
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John Podesta Responds To Your Questions
weeklystandard.com - 1/26/2009
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weeklystandard.com —
Late last week the Hill put out a
list of the top 20 lobbying firms in Washington...
. The list detailed year over year performance for each firm. Most of the firms on the list saw revenue decrease in 2008 by between 5 and 15 percent. Field leader ...
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A Lobbying Firm You Can Believe In
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It’s About The Change Yet Lobbyists and Tax Cheats Abound in New Administration
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... From the early days of his campaign, Obama made with the flourish that, should he be elected, lobbyists would not be welcome in his new tone Washington, his Washington of change and hope. Soon after the election, Obama’s spokesman John Podesta made a great show of announcing that Obama was insisting on the “strictest ethics rules ever applied” to his ongoing choices for members of his administration and his transition team. ...
It’s About The Change Yet Lobbyists and Tax Cheats Abound in New Administration
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-By Warner Todd Huston [image] From the early days of his campaign, Obama made with the flourish that, should he be elected, lobbyists would not be welcome in his new tone Washington, his Washington of change and hope. Soon after the election, Obama’s spokesman John Podesta made a great show of announcing that Obama was insisting on the “ strictest ethics rules ever applied ” to his ongoing choices for members of his administration and his transition team. In the early November news conference, Podesta proudly proclaimed that Obama was so interested in distancing himself from ...
The Tale of the Administration That Apparently Thought “Vetting” Was What You had Done to Dogs Every Six Months
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... For all the stories that have come out in the last month about how President Obama has executed the smoothest administrative transition in memory, and how Obama has chosen to enforce the “strictest ethics rules ever applied” to the administration vetting and recruitment process, the facts sure do seem to point to an altogether different conclusion — especially in terms of cabinet nominees and senior staff. ...
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