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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.
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No Corporate Cabinet serves as a central hub for information about, and activism related to, the Biden transition. We seek to ensure that the Biden administration can live up to the commitments his campaign made to the American people: To solve the twin crises of the pandemic and economic collapse and to set our society on a better, more equitable, and more just course.
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 MoreJune 10, 2021 | American Prospect
Jerome Powell Went Easy On Wall Street
Just as a president shouldn’t only be judged on whether or not they started a war, Fed chairs shouldn’t only be judged on whether they raised or lowered interest rates. That’s their most salient power, but they have other, more complex ways of affecting our lives. Financial regulation is one of the most important of these, and it’s one on which current Fed chairman Jerome Powell has failed badly.
June 09, 2021
One Shockingly Easy Step For Government Transparency: Staff Pages
Anyone who’s ever filed a Freedom of Information Act request can tell you that the federal bureaucracy is shockingly opaque despite. This has real consequences for the public’s understanding of what their government actually does every day. Almost all public records requests require watchdogs to specifically identify documents and personnel they are interested in, often without knowing if those documents even exist or if those personnel even still work for the government. This poses a conundrum, however: how can watchdogs know what or whose records to request if they don’t even know who works in a department?
June 09, 2021
The Trump Administration Made a Mockery of the Law. Why Hasn't Biden Tossed its Cases?
Donald Trump and his Department of Justice consistently made a mockery of the law throughout his four years in power. And while their laughable reasoning and indefensible positions were struck down at a historic rate, many cases were still waiting for Biden. The new administration tossed out a handful immediately but an alarming number remain, either in some form of pause or advancing forward with the Biden administration adopting Trump’s position.
June 08, 2021
E. Jean Carroll Decision Highlights Garland's Systemic Protection Of Trump Policies
Let’s be clear: there is absolutely no compelling reason Garland has to maintain the racist, misogynistic, planet-destroying, and corporatist legal stances of the Trump administration.
June 10, 2021
Donald Shaw - Sludge
Dems Pass On Using Key Power To Kill Trump Rules
June 9, 2021
Igor Derysh - Salon
Biden DOJ To “Vigorously” Defend Religious Schools' Right To Discriminate Against LGBTQ Students
June 9, 2021
Dharna Noor - Gizmodo
Lawyer Who Sued Treasury Department For Exxon Nominated To Be Agency’s General Counsel
June 9, 2021
Sadie Gurman - Wall Street Journal
Merrick Garland Underscores Justice Department’s Independence
June 8, 2021
Kyle Brasseur - Compliance Week
What Might An Overhauled PCAOB Look To Accomplish?
June 8, 2021
Suzy Khimm - NBC News
Why Senate Democrats Reversed Few Of Trump's 'Midnight Rules'
RDP on Twitter
RT @BitchuationPod: Given that most presidential administrations have been serengetis of corporate lawyers, Biden’s done a better job than…
RT @ceprdc: Saving the Planet Is Not a Jobs Killer - not even in Texas New tool to better understand the limited jobs impact of reducing fo…
RT @DouglasKeith_: @POTUS and @SecMayorkas committed to stop ICE from making immigration arrests at state and local courthouses - why are t…
"Using the CRA would not preempt further efforts to regulate protectively and in accord with the missions each law grants the Department or Agency. Undoing a deregulation doesn’t preclude future affirmative regulation." -@jeffhauser https://t.co/kf1Y9S5uEd
NEW: Our @jeffhauser spoke to @donnydonny of @Sludge about the "bogus legal argument" offered by Senate Democrats for failing to use the Congressional Review Act to undo key parts of Trump's right-wing regulatory agenda. https://t.co/kf1Y9RNTfD
NEW: We've updated our climate page! Check out our latest work on the revolving door between the fossil fuel industry and the Biden Administration. https://t.co/rE3CBaHhoC
NEW ON THE BLOG: Our @EAlsbergas explains how the small step of creating staff pages for executive branch department websites would go a long way towards boosting government transparency. https://t.co/dy9cZxeG1X
RT @BernieBerkeley: Why is @Potus @JoeBiden appointing foxes to guard the henhouse? We voted for @TheDemocrats to stop this kind of corrupt…
RT @ryanlcooper: Merrick Garland has so far been absolutely horrible https://t.co/0hPTYlsfBH