[Theoria]

Some idea of the TPP pimps.

State Department Officials Pass Through Revolving Door, Lobby for Passage of TPP

• Andrew Shapiro, former United States assistant secretary of state, who is now managing director of Beacon Global Strategies. The firm markets Shapiro as having “made key contributions to the U.S. pivot to Asia by leading an increase in military sales and transfers to U.S. partners including Taiwan, Japan, and Indonesia.”
• Jeffrey Bader, a National Security Council staffer under President Obama, who is now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute; “president and sole proprietor of Jeffrey Bader LLC, which provides assistance to companies with interests in Asia”; and “a member of the board of directors of HSBC North America Holdings, Inc.”
• David Huebner, former U.S. ambassador to New Zealand under President Obama, who is a partner with Arnold and Porter’s international arbitration, public international law and national security practices.
• John Roos, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan under President Obama, who is a senior advisor for Centerview Partners, “an international investment banking advisory practice specializing in independent advice and other client services.”
• Stanley Roth, assistant secretary of state during President Clinton’s second term, who has been Boeing’s vice president of international government relations since 2006.
• Stapleton Roy, a former assistant Secretary of State for intelligence and research under Bill Clinton, who is now a member of Kissinger Associates, the consulting firm founded by former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
• Susan Shirk, deputy assistant secretary of state under President Clinton, who is now senior director of Albright Stoneridge, a “strategic advisory and commercial diplomacy firm” founded by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
• Tom Schieffer, former ambassador to Australia and Japan, who “founded and remains active in Envoy International LLC, which largely does consulting work on international affairs for clients on both sides of the Pacific.”
• Richard Armitage, former deputy secretary of state under George W. Bush, who founded Armitage International, a firm that offers “multinational clients with critical support in the areas of international business development, strategic planning, and problem-solving.”
• Randall Schriver, former deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs under Bush, who is now a founding partner of Armitage International.'

[Cboldt]

Good list. I suspect the only laws originating in Congress are inconsequential things such as naming of post offices.

Even the budget originates with the president, as a matter of law!