Lobbyists Get Time With Obama Team
The American Spectator
For all the talk about an Obama transition team not using Washington lobbyists for assistance,there sure are a lot of private meetings being held with Washington corporate lobbyists at Obama transition offices around the nation’s capital.
According to Obama transition insiders,senior Obama staff have held or have scheduled meetings with lobbyists from the telecom,health-care,pharmaceutical,energy,and automotive industries,asking for their input into stimulus packages and for their assistance in lobbying the House and the Senate for tax credits and line item funding items for appropriations and budget items to be placed in legislation that may come before Congress before the Obama Administration takes office.