Career Path
Jul 27th, 2005 at 8:32 am by Susie
Ah yes, the Honorables:
A new study has found that 43 percent of the 198 House and Senate members who left government to join private life since 1998 have registered to lobby. Of the 36 senators who left during that period, half have joined the lobbying ranks.
Republican lawmakers have become lobbyists at a faster rate than Democrats, a fact that reflects GOP control of the White House and Congress in recent years. Nearly 52 percent of Republican lawmakers who moved to the private sector since 1998 have registered as lobbyists, the study said. Only a third of departing Democrats took the same path.
Was your congress critter one of them? Click here.
At least 28% of the states’ Governors from 1999 are now lobbyists as well. Political office is a training ground for lobbying.