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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 MoreJanuary 26, 2021
13 Questions Which Fintech-Tied Appointees Must Be Able To Answer
Lately, fintech-funded individuals like Michael Barr have been rumored for powerful financial regulatory positions, despite the fact that this would leave them in charge of decisions directly affecting the firms they advised.
January 26, 2021
If Biden Doesn’t Close Big Tech’s Revolving Door, The Right-Wing Will Eat Him Alive
The right-wing’s revolving door attacks on President Biden are intensifying, with a particular focus on the new President’s ties to Big Tech. Biden must beware the potency of these attacks and address them head-on.
January 26, 2021
Why The Next CFTC Chairperson Must Prioritize Climate Action Over Market Fads
Initially created to regulate futures derivatives on crops that had yet to be harvested, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) holds newfound possibility in the coming decade. It is absolutely crucial that a modern-day CFTC taps into the power it already holds to lead on climate action. Naturally, this necessitates a leader with a proven record of taking on corporate power. Any appointee should be prepared to advocate for the public interest, acknowledge the current reality of climate decay we find ourselves in, and creatively apply tools of the government to take immediate action.
January 22, 2021
Big Tech’s Top Picks to Lead DOJ Antitrust Division
Big Tech has a huge stake in who Biden ultimately staffs his antitrust and tech regulators. These individuals will decide how aggressively to carry out Biden’s promises of reining in the political and market power of these companies. If Big Tech gets its way, Biden will staff his antitrust teams with its attorneys and allies, who have pushed back against calls to break up these monopolies and protected them against regulation and enforcement. But if Biden wants to keep his campaign promises to take on monopolies, he must shut the revolving door between the federal government and Big Tech. That starts by rejecting for top jobs the following Big Tech allies.
January 22, 2021
Mark Sullivan - Fast Company
Biden Picked An Ex-VC To Run Commerce. Her Ties To Tech Might Be Too Close.
January 22, 2021
Nancy Scola - Politico
Pressure Rises On Biden To Shut Tech Out
January 21, 2021
Zachary Warmbrodt - Politico
Biden Poised To Break With Brown, Progressives In Picking Top Bank Cop
January 21, 2021
Kenny Stancil - Common Dreams
Promised Vaccine Stockpile Doesn't Even Exist? Governors Demand Trump 'Answer Immediately for This Deception'
January 21, 2021
Alex Thompson & Theodoric Meyer - Politico
What about Greg?
January 20, 2021
Kiran Stacey - Financial Times
Jeff Zients: The ‘Mr Fix It’ In Charge Of Tackling The US Covid Crisis
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