Friday, January 20, 2012

A New Crop of Lobbyists?

A lrage number of members of Congress have announced that they will be retiring after this session and lobbying firms intend to hire them. Its the revolving dorr and helsp explain how iron triangles form.

Corporate headhunters are sizing up the K Street prospects of the retiring members of the 112th Congress — and they like what they see.

Twenty-five representatives and senators so far have announced they will retire from Capitol Hill after this year’s election. Executives who work to place ex-lawmakers at law firms, lobby shops and corporate boards are monitoring the outgoing lawmakers and discussing who could go where — and how much they would earn.

“We are doing a mock draft with some of our clients,” Ivan Adler, a principal with the McCormick Group, told The Hill.

A mock draft - nice analogy.