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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 MoreJuly 01, 2022 | The American Prospect
In The Wake Of "Dobbs," Biden Leans on Familiar Excuses for Inaction
During his campaign, now-President Biden loved likening his image to that of FDR. But when a rogue U.S. Supreme Court threatened to overturn the sweeping reforms of FDR’s New Deal, Roosevelt directly challenged their gross power grab by threatening court expansion coupled with expansive judicial reforms. The controversial move paid off; the Court subsequently backed down and FDR preserved the slate of New Deal–era reforms that kept the working class alive during the depths of the Great Depression and formed the basis for much more broadly shared prosperity in the subsequent decades.
June 30, 2022
RELEASE: Impact of Supreme Court’s EPA Decision Can Be Minimized Through Decisive Executive Counteractions
Today the Supreme Court issued its long-awaited opinion in West Virginia v. EPA, curbing the EPA’s authority to establish carbon emissions caps under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act. It is a significant blow, and is further evidence of how far this empowered, extremist Supreme Court will go to erode the functions of our government and contravene the public interest. But it is not a lethal blow. Many tools to stave off the climate crisis and facilitate an equitable energy transition remain available to the EPA, to the White House, and to Congress.
June 29, 2022
Biden Must Take On Refineries To Lower Gas Prices
Rising gas prices may not be a problem of the Biden administration’s making, but they are a problem it cannot afford to ignore. People across the country are feeling their effects, with some groups like gig workers and those in the trucking industry – which has seen an increase in layoffs as gas prices have risen – suffering more acutely. In the face of these difficult conditions, it is essential that the Biden administration take decisive action to ease the pain people are feeling right now and, in the medium-term, address the structural factors that created this crisis.
June 28, 2022
RELEASE: New Report Finds Extensive Revolving Door To Corporate Interests Undermines Robust Anti-Monopoly Enforcement
The Revolving Door Project published a new white paper, “The Revolving Door In Federal Antitrust Enforcement,” which presents new evidence of the extent and impact of the revolving door at both the leadership and staff levels between the Department of Justice Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission and corporate-aligned entities.
June 26, 2022
Michael Scherer - Washington Post
Conservatives On The March: GOP Gains Ground Despite Democratic Control
June 23, 2022
Ben brody - Protocol
These firms helped elect Democrats. Now they work for Big Tech.
June 21, 2022
Matthew Cunningham-Cook - The Lever
Biden Taps Anti-Social Security Ideologue To Oversee Program
June 21, 2022
Robin Bravender - E&E News
Will EPA Use Special Power to Prod Trump Holdovers On Climate?
June 20, 2022
Eric Fan - MuckRock
Revolving-Door Riches: How Obama-Biden Officials Cashed In During The Trump Years
June 14, 2022
Jonathan Larsen - The Young Turks
Democrats Eye Wall Street Rule to Fight Inflation
RDP on Twitter
RT @InequalityMedia: One key reason housing costs are soaring? The most predatory industry in America: private equity. https://t.co/x4VHMWT…
With increased surveillance and the criminalization of pregnancy, we have not returned to pre-Roe days. What Biden does now will determine whether and how our grim present becomes even grimmer. https://t.co/6WFfBnz13P
With midterms looming, Democrats must employ the political-messaging strategies laid out by progressives like AOC and Elizabeth Warren by calling out institutional illegitimacy, circulating what Dems CAN do for the public, and taking concrete action. https://t.co/6WFfBnz13P
Democrats continue to engage in a counter-productive adherence to norms, which is preventing them from using innovative maneuvering to produce substantive results for their constituents — something Republicans have long wielded to devastating effect. https://t.co/6WFfBnz13P
Biden said he would do “all in [his] power” to protect abortion rights, which has so far meant a quiet backtrack on the filibuster and directing the FTC to investigate data privacy concerns. But he can do more, as scores of experts have already examined. https://t.co/6WFfBnz13P
Biden fancies himself an FDR, but he’s done little to earn the comparison. When SCOTUS sought to overturn FDR’s New Deal policies, FDR stood down the radical Court through pursuit of expansive judicial reforms. Now it’s Biden’s turn. https://t.co/6WFfBnz13P
New: For @TheProspect, our @aguilarosenthal, @MekedasB, and @GlennnaLi explain how the Biden administration has effectively hobbled itself as a result of its own learned helplessness. https://t.co/6WFfBnz13P
RT @ddayen: When a rogue Supreme Court threatened to overturn the New Deal, FDR directly challenged their gross power grab by threatening c…
RDP's @HannahStoryB: "The nightmares inflicted by this unelected, illegitimate Court upon the American public will last only as long as we refuse to take action to change the balance of power... There is no time for cowardly half-measures."