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About the Revolving Door Project
The Revolving Door Project (RDP) scrutinizes executive branch appointees to ensure they use their office to serve the broad public interest, rather than to entrench corporate power or seek personal advancement.
Projects
The Agency Spotlight
The Agency Spotlight tracks appointments to leadership positions at thirty-nine independent federal agencies through the confirmation process and beyond. Additionally, for three agencies — the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) — the Spotlight monitors and exhibits key votes.
Read MoreIndustry Agenda
Building off the work of our Personnel Map, the Industry Agenda is a report series that looks at how different industries seek to influence the staffing of the Biden Administration. In these reports, we take a closer look at the policy issues at stake for various industries, as well as the agencies and offices they will be looking to influence.
Learn MorePersonnel Map
The Personnel Map aims to demonstrate the breadth and depth of corporate America’s interest in the executive branch of the federal government. The map ties major economic sectors to the individual political positions that have the power to regulate, bring enforcement actions against, or disburse funds to the companies in that sector.
Learn MoreSeptember 22, 2023
Harvard Professor Uses This One Weird Trick To Sound Smart
Predicting things accurately is hard and saying there are 50/50 odds makes it sound like you’re just guessing. Why not say “there’s a one in three chance” instead?
September 21, 2023
Disgraced Revolving Door Republicans Back Payday Lender Attack On CFPB
Trent Lott, Tom Price, John Boehner and other corporate shills are back to rip you off again.
September 20, 2023
Thousands March Worldwide to End Fossil Fuels, as Biden Continues to Shirk His Responsibility to Address Climate Change
On Sunday, an estimated 75,000 people marched in Manhattan, demanding that President Biden end the era of fossil fuels and take immediate action to address climate change.
September 18, 2023
RELEASE: White House Should Deepen Its New Recognition of the Environmental Salience of Its Cancer Moonshot Initiative
The White House announced late last week that the Environmental Protection Agency is launching epa.gov/cancer as part of the Biden administration’s Cancer Moonshot efforts, and will share new information about the EPA’s role in leveraging its existing authorities to “accelerate the rate of progress to prevent cancer, including phase-outs of carcinogens, regulatory actions to protect children, workers and overburdened communities, and enforcement actions to ensure pollution is curbed.”
September 7, 2023
Greig Aitken - Global Energy Monitor
Global Energy Monitor Newsletter: Issue 51
September 7, 2023
Maxine Joselow & Vanessa Montalbano - The Washington Post
Why Biden's Methane Fee Could Backfire
September 6, 2023
Victor Reklaitis - Dow Jones Newsletter
Biden gives pep talk about unions, with UAW strike possible next week
September 6, 2023
Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
Google Doesn't Want Public to Listen In on Historic Antitrust Trial
September 5, 2023
Vandana Singh - Benzinga
Legal Twist In Drug Price Negotiation: Federal Judge Quits Case Amid Allegations Of Stock Ownership
September 1, 2023
Spencer Kimball - CNBC
Judge Withdraws From Medicare Drug Price Case After Stock Ownership Is Revealed
RDP on Twitter
Mick Mulvaney — who raked in huge campaign donations from payday lenders while serving in Congress — is trying to help his former donors kill the CFPB. https://t.co/4MXSXNoSJW
RT @ddayen: ICYMI: 2 telecom lobbying orgs paid 2 former Obama solicitors general to write a paper. The paper argued that the FCC shouldn't…
RT @imcivicaction: Another day, another Supreme Court ethics scandal. Here's how we can restore integrity to our nation's highest court.…
Read more from this May 2021 piece from @MaxMoranHi ⬇️https://t.co/QnorFBz3ve
"Nides' team 'successfully resisted calls to break up the banks or impose caps on their size', in part thanks to Nides’ personal connections with powerful centrist Democrats—he was Joe Lieberman’s chief of staff during the 2000 presidential campaign." https://t.co/QnorFBz3ve
"Morgan Stanley paid Nides $9 million for his services killing financial reform in 2010, but the next year he took a new job: the third-in-command in Hillary Clinton’s State Department." https://t.co/QnorFBz3ve