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John Boehner adds lobbyist to staff - Chris Frates - POLITICO.com
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House Speaker-elect John Boehner announced Thursday that he hired the medical device industrys chief lobbyist as his policy director, adding to a growing number of Republican lawmakers who have recruited top aides from K Street.
But Bill Allison of the Sunlight Foundation, a government transparency group, called the move business as usual, noting that Lopers now in a much better position to help his old employer.
The public thinks that theyre electing a radically new Congress. And the freshmen may change but the people with power in Washington are always the same, Allison said.
Incoming Republican House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers is considering hiring Lockheed Martin executive and lobbyist Bill Inglee as staff director of the powerful panel.
And The Washington Post on Thursday highlighted a number of Republicans who have hired registered lobbyists as top aides, including Republican Sens.-elect Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Mike Lee of Utah and Rand Paul of Kentucky. Republican Reps. Robert Dold of Illinois, Steve Pearce of New Mexico and Jeff Denham of California have also hired K Streeters.
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