revolving door
(noun)
The movement between roles as legislators and regulators become lobbyists
Examples of revolving door in the following topics:
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Direct Techniques
- Revolving door, when a former federal employee becomes a lobbyist and vice-versa, occurs in the direct lobbying sector.
- The bill includes provisions that require a quarterly report on lobby spending by organizations, places restrictions on gifts to Congress members, provides for mandatory disclosure of earmarks in expenditure bills, and places restrictions on the revolving door in direct lobbying.
- Revolving door is a term used to describe the cycling of former federal employees into jobs as lobbyists, while former lobbyists are pulled into government positions.
- The other form of the revolving door is pushing lobbyists into government positions, developing connections, and returning into the lobbying world to use said connections.
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Lobbying Scandals and the Reforms of 2007
- Details of the bill include closing the revolving door , prohibiting senators from gaining undue lobbying access by increasing the "cooling off" period before they can lobby Congress from one to two years, prohibiting cabinet secretaries and other senior executive personnel from lobbying the department or agency in which they worked for two years after they leave their position, and prohibiting senior Senate staff and officers from lobbying contacts with the entire Senate for one year, instead of just their former employing office.
- Requires that executive and legislative branch employees who leave government positions and seek to lobby on behalf of Native American tribes face the same revolving door provisions as others.
- As the former Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services and lobbyist for the Podesta Group in 2009, Ellen Haas represents the revolving door phenomenon that the 2007 lobbying reforms sought to address.
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Reducing Turnover
- Simple ways to describe it are "how long employees tend to stay" or "the rate of traffic through the revolving door. "
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Review Techniques
- Simple ways to describe it are "how long employees tend to stay" or "the rate of traffic through the revolving door. "
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Dogon Sculpture
- Dogon sculpture primarily revolves around the themes of religious values, ideals, and freedoms.
- Dogon art is primarily sculptural and revolves around religious values, ideals, and freedoms.
- Carved animal figures, such as dogs and ostriches, are placed on village foundation altars to commemorate sacrificed animals, while granary doors, stools, and house posts are also adorned with figures and symbols.
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The Open Door Policy
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Tenements and Overcrowding
- All the fresh air that ever enters these stairs comes from the hall-door that is forever slamming, and from the windows of dark bedrooms that in turn receive from the stairs their sole supply of the elements God meant to be free, but man deals out with such niggardly hand.
- But the saloon, whose open door you passed in the hall, is always there.
- Here is a door.
- They mean that the soiled bow of white you saw on the door downstairs will have another story to tell--Oh!
- Not all new urban architecture revolved around lower-class housing.
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The Muckrakers
- The muckrakers would become known for their investigative journalism, which often revolved around scandal and corruption.
- The work of early muckrakers opened the door for journalists today to cover a wide array of legal, social, ethical and public policy concerns.
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Introduction to Index Numbers
- For example, we could distinguish between door1 (pronounced "door sub one") and door2 (pronounced "door sub two"), if we noticed that sometimes the word door refers to an opening in a wall through which one can go, and other times it refers to the object used to block up that opening so that one cannot go through!
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Molecularity
- For example, if a crowd is leaving a theater through a single exit door, the time it takes to empty the building is a function of the number of people who can move through the door per second.
- Once a group gathers at the door, the speed at which other people leave their seats and move along the aisles has no influence on the overall exit rate.