Posted on 11/20/2008 1:40:14 PM PST by obamaisandrogynous
A number of liberal activists who were aides to President Bill Clinton during his tumultuous two terms of President of the U.S. — and lobbyists who worked for health reform causes — are handling the health care policy transition for the Obama administration, poised to take office in just over two months.
According to media reports, William Corr, one of two leaders on President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team for the Health and Human Services Department, was a top aide to former Sen. Tom Daschle, Mr. Obama’s choice to run the sprawling agency.
Corr, now the executive director of the anti-smoking group Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, was chief counsel and policy director from 1998 to 2000 for then-Senate Minority Leader Daschle. He joined the anti-tobacco lobby, an extension, in essence, of the Clinton administration, in 2000, and has lobbied Congress to give the Food and Drug Administration, an HHS agency, the authority to regulate tobacco. An Obama transition official said Corr, a registered lobbyist until September, is recused from working on tobacco issues. During the campaign, Obama had promised that no lobbyists would serve in his administration which was going to bring unspecified “change” to America.
Corr has a long resume working for Democrats on health matters. He was HHS Secretary Donna Shalala’s chief of staff during the Clinton administration, and was counsel to the House Energy and Commerce health subcommittee for 12 years, working on health-care access and food and drug issues, such as the orphan drug legislation.
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Change? What change? Politics as usual under obamanation.
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