revolving door

Examples of revolving door in the following topics:

• 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.

• 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.

• 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!

• Debate over the Presidency and the Judiciary

  • During the Constitutional Convention, the most contentious disputes revolved around the composition of the Presidency and the Judiciary.
  • During the Constitutional Convention, the most contentious disputes revolved around the composition and election of the Senate, how "proportional representation" was to be defined, whether to divide the executive power between three people or invest the power into a single president, how to elect the president, how long his term was to be and whether he could stand for reelection, what offenses should be impeachable, the nature of a fugitive slave clause, whether to allow the abolition of the slave trade, and whether judges should be chosen by the legislature or executive.
  • During the Constitutional Convention, some the most contentious disputes revolved around the composition of the Presidency and the Judiciary.

• Party Leadership in the House

  • House of Representatives are elected by their respective parties in a closed-door caucus.
  • Party leaders and whips of the United States House of Representatives are elected by their respective parties in a closed-door caucus by secret ballot.
  • The floor leaders and whips of each party are elected by their respective parties in a closed-door caucus by secret ballot.
  • The Speaker-elect is also chosen in a closed-door session although they are formally installed in their position by a public vote when Congress reconvenes.

• Party Leadership in the Senate

  • Unlike committee chairmanships, leadership positions are not traditionally conferred on the basis of seniority, but are elected in closed-door caucuses.

• Assembling a Campaign Staff

  • These volunteers and interns may take part in activities such as canvassing door-to-door and making phone calls on behalf of the campaign.

• The Free Exercise Clause: Freedom of Religion

  • The specific beliefs and practices (such as a belief in door-to-door proselytizing, depicted here) of the Jehovah's Witnesses has meant that Jehovah's Witnesses' litigation has played a key role in defining the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.

• Cultivating Access

  • If you can't get in your door, you can't make your case.

• Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

  • The Court did not establish a precise ruling, but rather opened the door for future debates.