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| Trump’s Watered-Down Ethics Rules Let a Lobbyist Help Run an Agency He Lobbied; Drain the swamp? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Feb 11 2017, 05:13 PM (125 Views) | |
| dr345 | Feb 11 2017, 05:13 PM Post #1 |
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Geoff Burr spent much of the last decade as the chief lobbyist for a powerful construction industry trade group. Burr sought to influence a host of regulations of the Department of Labor, opposing wage standards for federal construction contracts and working against an effort to limit workers’ exposure to dangerous silica dust. In the Obama administration, someone like Burr would have been barred by ethics rules from taking a job at an agency that he had lobbied. In the Trump administration, Burr now has a top job at the Labor Department. Burr is the first publicly known example of a former lobbyist who was able to take a job in the government as a result of President Donald Trump’s watering down of ethics rules in place during the Obama administration. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-watered-down-ethics-rules-let-lobbyist-help-run-agency-he-lobbied |
| un jour on se souviendra de ca comme on se souvient de ca | |
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| coverpoint | Feb 11 2017, 09:24 PM Post #2 |
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- Lobbyist for the Associated Builders and Contractors - Lobbied against prevailng wage law on government contracts - Lobbied against collective bargaining on government contracts Now slated to be the Assistant Secratary of Labor ??? Remember before the election when conservatives claimed they were fighting for the middle class blue collar worker??? Remember before the election when conservatives claimed they would "Drain the swamp"?? Hypocrisy, thy name is Conservatism! |
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| clone | Feb 11 2017, 09:51 PM Post #3 |
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Director @ Center for Advanced Memetic Warfare
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- Lobbied for the Associated Builders and Contractors - Lobbied against prevailng wage law on government contracts - Lobbied against collective bargaining on government contracts What's the problem?
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Only liberals can choose not to go down the road to widespread, systematic violence. | |
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| Robert Stout | Feb 11 2017, 11:57 PM Post #4 |
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Liberals will respond with another demonstration....That's the ticket.................
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| Jesus can raise the dead, but he can't fix stupid | |
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