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About the Revolving Door Project
The Revolving Door Project (RDP), a project of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), scrutinizes executive branch appointees to ensure they use their office to serve the broad public interest, rather than to entrench corporate power or seek personal advancement.
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The Agency Spotlight
The Agency Spotlight tracks appointments to leadership positions at thirty-nine independent federal agencies through the confirmation process and beyond. Additionally, for three agencies — the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) — the Spotlight monitors and exhibits key votes.
Read MoreIndustry Agenda
Building off the work of our Personnel Map, the Industry Agenda is a report series that looks at how different industries seek to influence the staffing of the Biden Administration. In these reports, we take a closer look at the policy issues at stake for various industries, as well as the agencies and offices they will be looking to influence.
Learn MorePersonnel Map
The Personnel Map aims to demonstrate the breadth and depth of corporate America’s interest in the executive branch of the federal government. The map ties major economic sectors to the individual political positions that have the power to regulate, bring enforcement actions against, or disburse funds to the companies in that sector.
Learn MoreJanuary 26, 2023
STATEMENT: Landlords Celebrate Biden’s Weak ‘Renter Protection’ Plan
Watered-down White House tenant protection measures are a victory for big real estate and private equity lobbyists.
January 25, 2023 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Hannah Story Brown Emma Marsano
Corporate CrackdownEthics in GovernmentExecutive BranchHealthRevolving Door
Biden’s Choice of Chief of Staff Threatens Populist Potential
Last Friday marked the exact midway point of Biden’s presidential term. With this newly divided Congress, there are scant possibilities for legislation in the next two years. By and large, this next stage of Biden’s presidency should be all about the executive branch: implementing recent laws, enforcing existing laws, and enacting much-needed regulation. (Biden should have been overseeing these things all along, of course—that’s what the Presidency is for!)
January 23, 2023
Independent Agency Spotlight Update January 2023
It was a slow fall for independent agency nominations as Senators left chambers for their campaigns and the Biden administration stood paralyzed in anticipation of the midterm Red Wave That Wasn’t.
January 23, 2023
The White House Must Heed Tenants, Not Corporate Profiteers, To Enact New Tenant Protection Measures
The White House should not succumb to the real estate industry’s cynical lobbying efforts to block new federal tenant protections. These same developers and corporate landlords fueled the rental housing crisis in the first place by spiking rents and exploiting families, and now they are looking to defend their ill-gotten gains.
January 27, 2023
Julia Conley - Common Dreams
As Housing Crisis Deepens, Corporate Landlords Applaud 'Weak' Biden Renter Protections
January 27, 2023
Ken Klippenstein - Ken Klippenstein Newsletter
Landlord Lobby Brags About Blocking Executive Order On Housing Crisis
January 26, 2023
Branko Marcetic - Jacobin
Joe Biden’s Rooseveltian Ambitions Are Officially Dead
January 26, 2023
Kenichi Serino - PBS Newshour
Who is Jeff Zients, Biden’s next chief of staff?
January 24, 2023
Christiano Lima - Washington Post
Tech Ties Haunt Biden's Next Chief Of Staff
January 23, 2023
Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
'Catastrophic Decision': Progressives Rip Choice of Jeff Zients for Chief of Staff
RDP on Twitter
What independent agency vacancies do Senate Democrats need to fill this year? Our @aguilarosenthal has the answers. https://t.co/GGZLhdi3Dc
@Thom_Hartmann We couldn't agree more! https://t.co/3lLbUwXhXB
RT @TheProspect: Jeffrey Zients has been a yes-man to corporate interests his entire career. What should we expect from him as President Bi…
RT @EmmaVigeland: Biden's new chief of staff was a proponent of the worst instincts within the Obama White House. Pro-TPP, pro-social spend…
RT @MaxMoranHi: I wrote for @TheProspect about Jeff Zients, the next White House Chief of Staff. Some of his defenders say that it's unfa…
RT @DRBoguslaw: New deep dive on Biden's incoming chief of staff. From @MaxMoranHi https://t.co/WDw7WcRlEv
RT @ddayen: As Jeff Zients is announced today for WH chief of staff, @MaxMoranHi goes through his whole history, both in and out of governm…
"It’s not every day you see lobbyists admit to having steered a politician away from doing something good. But that’s exactly what the @NAAhq did on Wednesday." -@kenklippenstein https://t.co/gjL2fPjUxR
"To determine the strength of the Biden administration's new nonbinding push for renter protections, one needs to look only at the elated response from corporate landlords." -@juliakconley https://t.co/cAWBuF2vPV