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This could screw up some of the NCBA boys that jump from the NCBA job to the USDA and back to the packers in the "revolving door" of bought out corruption..
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Obama Team Moves to Keep Its Distance From Lobbyists
By Michael D. Shear
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 12, 2008; Page A04
Barack Obama campaigned as an anti-Washington candidate, and the leader of his presidential transition team made it clear that the president-elect would seek to build on that theme over the next two months.
His transition chief, John D. Podesta, announced a set of broad regulations yesterday that ban federal lobbyists from participating in Obama's transition, saying the move is designed to ensure "that the undue influence of Washington lobbyists and the revolving door of Washington ceases to exist."
The transition team will not allow lobbyists to work in the subject areas in which they have previously lobbied, Podesta said. And if someone becomes a lobbyist after working on the transition, they will be prohibited from lobbying the administration for 12 months on matters on which they worked.
"I've heard the other complaint, which is we're leaving all these experts on the side. . . . We're leaving all the people who know everything out in the cold," Podesta said. "And so be it." He said a similar ban was likely to be in effect for the actual administration, including an extension of the lobbyist ban to two years.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/11/AR2008111102661.html?hpid=topnews