Posted on 05/07/2009 3:16:38 AM PDT by Scanian
During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama declared that, "lobbyists won't find a job in my White House." Now President Obama takes a different view of lobbyists.
The Senate is expected soon to approve anti-tobacco lobbyist William Corr for the second-highest post at the Department of Health and Human Services. He is the former executive director of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and, until recently, a registered lobbyist.
The Obama team has said Mr. Corr will recuse himself from tobacco-related matters. Sure. Mr. Corr's former group received $3.3 million over the past five years from pharmaceutical companies, according to the Wall Street Journal. Some of those firms profit from nicotine gum, patches and other smoking-cessation aids.
The Obama administration asks its appointees to sign a pledge not to work on issues for which they lobbied in the previous two years. It will be hard for Mr. Corr to abide by such restrictions as deputy secretary of HHS, which has a broad scope.
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