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About the Revolving Door Project
The Revolving Door Project (RDP) 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 MoreMay 26, 2023 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Hack Watch: Everyone’s So Worried About The President Getting Sued About the Debt Ceiling, No One Seems to Have Noticed He Already Was
May 26, 2023
RELEASE: Revolving Door Project Reacts to Biden’s Debt Ceiling Cave & the Media’s Incompetent Coverage
In response to the emergence of the structure of a potential deal between President Biden and Speaker McCarthy, Revolving Door Project Executive Director Jeff Hauser issued the following statement:
“There are three aspects to the substance and coverage of this debate that have been infuriating.”
May 24, 2023 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Who’s Going To Keep Corporations Honest?
The Washington Post last week ran a delightful little synopsis of Senator Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) true passion: congressional oversight. Bernie is revered for his willingness to hold corporations and their CEOs accountable for their villainy, and how he does so with extraordinary dexterity. Be it by ruthlessly interrogating Big Pharma executives for their murderous price gouging of lifesaving treatments or humiliating Howard Schultz for being a whiny billionaire union-buster, Bernie Sanders makes congressional oversight hearings fun. The fun he makes for himself and for the public he strives to give real voice to through speaking truth to power is not just gratifying; it also helps sharpen congressional oversight into a tool to actually achieve something.
May 22, 2023
RELEASE: The Justice Department Should Not Defend The Legal Incoherence That Is The Debt Ceiling
On Friday, May 19, the National Association of Government Employees filed an emergency motion in their lawsuit against President Joe Biden and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. NAGE urged the Massachusetts District Court to issue a preliminary injunction holding that the debt ceiling violates the separation of powers and Presentment Clause set forth in Articles I and II of the U.S. Constitution.
May 22, 2023
David Dayen - The American Prospect
The President Is Already in Litigation Over the Debt Ceiling
May 19, 2023
Jeet Heer - The Nation
PODCAST: Slaying the Debt Ceiling Dragon
May 18, 2023
- American Economic Liberties Project
Delaney Withdraws from Consideration for First Circuit Following Advocate Pressure
May 18, 2023
David Dayen - The American Prospect
New Hampshire Senators Silence Opposition to Controversial Judicial Nominee
May 17, 2023
Joanna Marsh - Freight Waves
Rail Industry ‘Crises’ Spur Call To Oust STB Chair
May 15, 2023
Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
Progressives Say It Would Be 'Devastatingly Foolish' for Biden to Let GOP Bully Him Over Debt Limit
RDP on Twitter
RT @commondreams: "Everyone involved in Biden's decision to renominate him must apologize," wrote @jeffhauser of @revolvingdoorDC. https://…
NEW: You've probably heard a lot of people proclaim that the Fed will only stop hiking rates once inflation gets down to 2%. But why 2%? The answer is.....uh.....it sounds nice? @DylanGyauchL explains the theatrics of inflation-targeting for Hack Watch. https://t.co/AY9ovidnWP
RT @owenslindsay1: Drop everything you’re doing and watch this clip of @jonstewart taking Larry Summers to the cleaners on his cruel inflat…
If you want more evidence that Summers is a hack, our @MaxMoranHi wrote for @thenation about how he scrambled to protect SVB depositors from losing any wealth this week — which totally contradicts the inflation arguments Stewart presses him on! https://t.co/vqKJqMqR7c
What a masterclass by @JonStewart. Larry Summers is used to total deference from most people. When he doesn't get it, he's used to just bullying people into submission with his intellect. But Stewart did his damn homework. Summers wasn't expecting that. https://t.co/woZkiViRct
RT @TheProspect: While the news has fixated on the SVB collapse, Biden’s approval of the Willow Project has received far less attention. It…
RT @RealBankReform: So, Powell held up the statement the measures that he argued were so essential in an effort to prevent accountability a…
RT @RealBankReform: Another detail from @ddayen: Powell's effort delayed the public response "an indeterminate period of time." That's no t…
RT @RealBankReform: Former Fed gov Sarah Bloom Raskin was scathing in comment to @TheProspect: “What they’re doing is really trying to brus…