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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 MoreNo Corporate Cabinet
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 MoreMay 14, 2021
Revolver Spotlight: Scott Harris
The NTIA will have an outsized role in ensuring equitable access to broadband during the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, which makes the reports that Biden is considering former telecommunications lobbyist Scott Blake Harris to head the agency deeply alarming.
May 13, 2021
100 Days in Office and Biden is Outpacing Obama
May 13, 2021
The Difference Between Public Interest And Corporate Lobbyists
Representatives of corporate interests often twist the spirit and the intent behind calls for ethics in government. Under the guise of keeping lobbyists out of an administration, big business rails against even the suggestion that working people get a voice in government. They do this by falsely conflating public interest lobbyists and corporate lobbyists.
May 11, 2021
Garland's DOJ Needs To Prioritize Fixing Our Broken Immigration Court System
Two recent pieces from The Hill and the New York Times have called much-needed attention to the dismal state of immigration courts in this country. Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice (DOJ), which oversees the immigration court system, has thus far failed to root out white supremacy and adequately staff the system, leaving hundreds of thousands of migrants in precarious legal–and physical–positions.
May 11, 2021
Victoria Guida & Ben White - Politico
Biden’s Biggest Remaining Personnel Decision Meets Heat From The Left
May 11, 2021
Courtney Buble - GovExec
Were Biden’s Ethics Waivers for Labor Ties Justified?
May 10, 2021
Jeff Cohen & Norman Solomon - LA Progressive
Pramila Jayapal Misses Mark with A’ Grade for Biden
May 6, 2021
Ian Lopez - Bloomberg
U.S. Call to Waive Vaccine Patents Said to Snarl Immunity Effort
May 5, 2021
Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
'A Transformative, Hopeful Event': Under Pressure, Biden Backs Covid-19 Vaccine Patent Waiver
May 5, 2021
Aida Chavez - The Nation
The Biden State Department Nominee Who Worked for Saudi Arabia and Big Oil
RDP on Twitter
In October, our @EAlsbergas explained why Biden should avoid putting "Never Trump" Republicans like John Kasich or Meg Whitman in his Cabinet, as it would mean accepting the corruption and trickle-down ideology that the GOP knows so well. #2020inReview https://t.co/GyNVRCu301
In September, our @MaxMoranHi and @andreambeaty explained why closing the revolving door between government and Silicon Valley would not only be good anti-corruption policy, but also great politics in our New Gilded Age. #2020inReview https://t.co/Mu4sS156ss
RT @jeffhauser: @MaxMoranHi @revolvingdoorDC @LorenRaeDeJ Privatizing knowledge of government to make more money outside government than yo…
RT @MaxMoranHi: @LorenRaeDeJ The revolving door doesn't mean doing anything besides government is bad, it means doing things that undermine…
RT @kenvogel: BIDEN WH APPOINTEES' BIG TECH TIES: ➡️ex-@Facebook Associate General Counsel (Jessica Hertz) ➡️ex-@Facebook board member (@Je…
RT @jeffhauser: THREAD https://t.co/Q0pDW1NVxs
"The Biden transition's ultimate arbiter for ethics was a senior regulatory official for Facebook until a few months ago [...] I think the Trump admin is insanely corrupt and I’m not equating the two, but this is deeply disappointing.” - @jeffhauser https://t.co/P7Y5dg1qe2
MORE: From 2009 to 2011, Jessica Hertz was Counselor to OIRA Administrator Cass Sunstein. Sunstein, as our @jeffhauser wrote, was a disastrous OIRA chief, killing crucial regulations governing ozone protection, car safety, and carcinogenic silica dust. https://t.co/LIv0QfAKvl
Instead of hiring Big Tech insiders like Hertz, Biden should seize this political moment by closing the revolving door between government and Silicon Valley. As we wrote in September, cracking down on Big Tech is good politics and good policy. https://t.co/Mu4sS156ss