Reply #1: He'll soon be busy once the industry courts him hard [View All]

[Rose Siding]

Serendipity finds him very fortunate...

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Until now, senior officials at Cabinet departments and agencies had not been allowed to lobby former colleagues for a full year after leaving office -- a rule designed to prevent an obvious conflict of interest. But, in a notice in the Federal Register, the ethics office issued a new rule invoking its power to declare that "a former senior employee who served in a 'parent' department or agency is not barred . . . from making communications to or appearances before any employee of any designated component of that parent."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A36039-2004Dec4?language=printer