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news.aol.com - 11/11/2008
Obama Won't Take Money From Lobbyists
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President-Elect Obama's transition team today released ethics rules aimed at curbing the influence of lobbyists in his administration. "Barack Obama's pledged to change the way Washington works and to curb the influence of lobbyists," John Podesta, the head of Obama's transition team, told ...
washingtonpost.com - 11/15/2008
Some Former Lobbyists Have Key Roles in Obama Transition
— washingtonpost.com — Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from... the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ... (more) Some Former Lobbyists Have Key Roles in Obama Transition

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Obama softens ban on hiring lobbyists
boston.com - 11/12/2008
Obama softens ban on hiring lobbyists
— boston.com — WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama, who vowed during his campaign that lobbyists "won't find a job in... my White House," said through a spokesman yesterday that he would allow lobbyists on his transition team as long as they work on issues ... (more) Obama softens ban on hiring lobbyists

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Obama’s Transition Team Restricts Help of Lobbyists
nytimes.com - 11/12/2008
Obama’s Transition Team Restricts Help of Lobbyists
— nytimes.com — The team will bar lobbyists from donating to it or working for it in any area in... which they have represented clients in the last year. > (more) Obama’s Transition Team Restricts Help of Lobbyists

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Lobbyists Not Allowed on Obama Transition Team — The Page by Mark Halperin
New ethics rules released Tuesday say federal lobbyists are prohibited from lobbying while working on the transition and cannot contribute financially. Anyone involved in the transition who later becomes a lobbyist isn't able to lobby the new administration for a year on matters on which ...
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Source: [b]Associated Press[/b] President-elect Obama's aides are announcing new rules to govern the conduct of lobbyists during the transition to power, including steps to limit their involvement in areas where they have sought to influence policy in the past year. According to John ...
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[Guest post by DRJ] Now that he’s President-elect and filling the rosters of his Administration, Obama has backed off his promise to exclude lobbyists from government and lobbyists are back in : “Despite campaign trail promises that special interests wouldn’t be a part of his ...
Adding lobbyists to the whip team? — Political Animal
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Lobbyists guess what Obama WH means — Politico Live's Blogs
Lobbyists all over town are sizing up what the new Obama administration might mean to them and their clients. Some of these size-up reports are nothing more than rehashes of old news. But APCO Worldwide has turned up a few nuggets worth reading: Health care Obama won’t have to wait ...
Obama Breaking His Promises On Lobbyists — Say Anything
He said he wouldn’t take campaign money from lobbyists, but he went ahead and took it from lobbyists’ spouses and business partners and children.  He said that lobbyists wouldn’t have a place in his administration, but now that he’s been elected... they do .  ...
Letting in the lobbyists — Ben Smith's Blog
Martin and Cummings have the scoop on how Obama is implementing his pledge to keep lobbyists out of the White House (which was actually a pledge to bar them from working on the issues on which they lobbied) while bringing them back into his transition: With the campaign over, lobbyists are out ...
Lobbyists in Obamaworld — Jonathan Martin's Blog
WIth my colleague Jeanne Cummings, over at Politico44 With the campaign over, lobbyists are out of the dog house and helping with the White House transition team. But they're also being asked to sign a document pledging to not lobby for one year the department or agency they're ...
No Lobbyists need apply! Uh, nevermind ... — QandO
P olitico is reporting that the "change" that Washington purportedly needs and was promised by Obama, i.e. lobbyists would not be welcome in his administratin, is apparently not quite as stringent as one might have thought: Despite campaign trail promises that special interests wouldn’t be a ...