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Old 05-22-2017, 08:18 AM
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The Trump administration, in a significant escalation of its clash with the government’s top ethics watchdog, has moved to block an effort to disclose the names of former lobbyists who have been granted waivers to work in the White House or federal agencies.

The latest conflict came in recent days when the White House, in a highly unusual move, sent a letter to Walter M. Shaub Jr., the head of the Office of Government Ethics, asking him to withdraw a request he had sent to every federal agency for copies of the waivers. In the letter, the administration challenged his legal authority to demand the information.

Dozens of former lobbyists and industry lawyers are working in the Trump administration, which has hired them at a much higher rate than the previous administration. Keeping the waivers confidential would make it impossible to know whether any such officials are violating federal ethics rules or have been given a pass to ignore them.

Mr. Shaub, who is in the final year of a five-year term after being appointed by President Barack Obama, said he had no intention of backing down. “It is an extraordinary thing,” Mr. Shaub said of the White House request. “I have never seen anything like it.”


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/u...lobbyists.html
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Old 05-22-2017, 09:32 AM
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For the life of me I cannot understand the reasoning behind allowing lobbying in the first place.
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Old 05-22-2017, 09:32 AM
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Old 05-22-2017, 11:01 AM
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For the life of me I cannot understand the reasoning behind allowing lobbying in the first place.
From what I know this is guaranteed by the constitution as free speech though back then they did not consider a for profit clause. what is amazing that today just about every bill is drafted with and by lobbyists since the elected representatives are way too busy getting elected, a non-stop cycle.
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Old 05-22-2017, 01:25 PM
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In other words the government represents only those people who can afford pricey lobbyists.

I guess we can shitcan the "government for and by the people".

I understand trump will shitcan the constitution next.

Billionaires can do that..... the people don't have a say i the matter.
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Sinkhole is that how you spell it?
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