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According to the White House, the important thing is that Tom Daschle is not technically a lobbyist. "If you're not registered to lobby, you can't be a lobbyist," explains White House spokesman Robert Gibbs. And Daschle, the former Senate Democratic leader who is up for the top health...
White House aides say the important thing is not to focus on the holes in the lobbying rules but on their positive effect. The new Obama policy, according to several outside groups, remains the most expansive ban on the revolving door between lobbyists and public service in Executive Branch history...
This is, it must be said, exactly how things have always worked in Washington. Competing interests feel each other out in public comments, trying to figure out how to balance the public interest with their own political interests. What is different this time is the presence of a President who...
The White House response to this disappointment was to ask for more time. "Look, old habits die hard in this town. We get that," said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs at a press briefing on Thursday. "But the President understands that changing the way Washington works isn't likely to...
The best opportunity for Obama to broker a compromise will probably be during negotiations between the House and the Senate to hammer out a single piece of legislation. But on Thursday, Gibbs declined to commit Obama to direct involvement in those negotiations. "I don't think I would close the...