K Street Pjt

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</div><div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr;"><div class="mw-parser-output" style="">The K Street Project is an effort by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Republican Party</a> (GOP) to pressure <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,D.C." title="Washington, D.C." style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Washington</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbying" title="Lobbying" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">lobbying</a> firms to hire Republicans in top positions, and to reward loyal GOP lobbyists with access to influential officials, an arrangement known as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crony_capitalism" title="Crony capitalism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">crony capitalism</a>. It was launched in 1995 by Republican strategist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Norquist" title="Grover Norquist" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Grover Norquist</a> and then-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_majority_whip" class="mw-redirect" title="House majority whip" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">House majority whip</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_DeLay" title="Tom DeLay" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Tom DeLay</a>. It has been criticized as being part of a "coziness" between the GOP and large corporations which has allegedly allowed business to rewrite government regulations affecting their own industries in some cases, such as with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney" title="Dick Cheney" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Dick Cheney</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_task_force" class="mw-redirect" title="Energy task force" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">energy task force</a>.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]Shortly after the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.House_election,1994" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. House election, 1994" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">1994 elections</a> which gave a majority of seats to Republican candidates, DeLay called prominent Washington lobbyists into his office. He had pulled the public records of political contributions that they made to Democrats and Republicans. According to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texans_for_Public_Justice" title="Texans for Public Justice" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Texans for Public Justice</a>, "he reminded them that Republicans were in charge and their political giving had better reflect that—or else. The "or else" was a threat to cut off access to the Republican House leadership."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Street_Project#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a>The project is named for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Street(Washington,DC)" class="mw-redirect" title="K Street (Washington, DC)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">K Street</a> in Washington, D.C., where the largest lobbying firms once had their headquarters. Lobbyists are, in some circles, referred to as the "fourth branch of government," as some have great influence in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Politics in the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">U.S. national politics</a> due to their monetary resources and the "revolving-door" practice of hiring former government officials. It is widely believed to be common practice for politicians to solicit money from lobbying firms in exchange for better access to officials, especially members of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Congress</a>, and to buy favoritism in policies.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]Candidates seeking to succeed DeLay as House majority leader sought to distance themselves from the project, and as of January 15, 2006, all three announced candidates had vowed to dismantle it and overhaul the lobbying process. The fundamental <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quid_pro_quo" title="Quid pro quo" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">quid pro quo</a> at the center of the K Street Project -- the withholding of policy favors from interest groups and lobbying firms that hire <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Democrats</a> -- is now illegal: the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honest_Leadership_and_Open_Government_Act" title="Honest Leadership and Open Government Act" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Honest Leadership and Open Government Act</a> of 2007, Sec 102, bans members of Congress and staffers from using their political power to influence the employment decision of any private entity "on the basis of partisan political affiliation".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Street_Project#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;" xmlns:xml="xml">
</div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Street_Project#The_dossier" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1The dossier</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Street_Project#The_Abramoff_connection" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2The Abramoff connection</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Street_Project#Republicans_distance_themselves" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3Republicans distance themselves</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Street_Project#Defenses_of_the_K_Street_Project" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4Defenses of the K Street Project</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Street_Project#Trademark_application" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5Trademark application</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Street_Project#Footnotes" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6Footnotes</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Street_Project#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">7References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Street_Project#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">8External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">The dossier[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=K_Street_Project&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: The dossier" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>In 2002 the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Post" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Washington Post</a> reported on the existence of a dossier compiled by the project, keeping tabs on which lobbying firms and individual lobbyists gave to which politicians and parties. An unnamed GOP lobbyist source told the Washington Post that "you will have this list to control access" to the White House, Congress, and Federal agencies.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]According to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Times" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">New York Times</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Norquist" title="Grover Norquist" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Grover Norquist</a> claimed "it's an ongoing project that's been updated over the last several years, and this is the most recent iteration." Norquist claimed that the object was "letting people know how many R's and D's are being hired" by certain interest groups, so that these groups would hire more Republicans to represent them.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]As a result of this exposure, a letter circulated in Congress reminding members and Senators that it was a violation of ethical standards to limit lobbyists' access based on their political contributions.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]<h2 style="background: none; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">The Abramoff connection</h2>Members of Congress in both parties are promising to reform the rules for lobbying Congress in the aftermath of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Abramoff_lobbying_and_corruption_scandal" class="mw-redirect" title="Jack Abramoff lobbying and corruption scandal" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Jack Abramoff lobbying and corruption scandal</a>. Abramoff, a top Washington lobbyist, was a prolific contributor to Republican political campaigns, and has recently pleaded guilty to conspiracy and fraud charges. His campaign contributions, lavish <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf" title="Golf" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">golf</a> trips, jobs that required little or no work, and expensive meals for congressmen and their staffers are the focus of a criminal investigation.<h2 style="background: none; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Republicans distance themselves</h2>Former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Pennsylvania</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Senator</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santorum" title="Rick Santorum" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Rick Santorum</a>, who served in the House before 1994, has often been described as the Senate liaison to the K Street Project, as he met with Norquist on a regular basis to review openings at lobbying firms and the leading candidates for those positions. As the Abramoff scandal broke and grew, however, he denied the extent of the role attributed to him. He claimed his meetings with Norquist were not as frequent as asserted, that he did not know Norquist that well, and that he was unaware of a file keeping track of campaign contributions by lobbyists and their firms.He took particular umbrage at claims to the contrary by then-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Minority_Leader" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Senate Minority Leader" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Senate minority leader</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Reid" title="Harry Reid" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Harry Reid</a>, saying they amounted to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slander_and_libel" class="mw-redirect" title="Slander and libel" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">libel</a>, although he did not deny that meetings took place. He referred to them as "good government" efforts. He claimed he had not seen Norquist in years, but later the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog" title="Blog" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">blog</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crooks_and_Liars" title="Crooks and Liars" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Crooks and Liars</a> posted a video clip of the two of them sharing a podium at a June 28, 2005 press conference.Norquist, however, claims that at a 2002 meeting with Santorum and lobbyists he described the project to them. A contemporary report says he described its goals and asked those present to help complete the project. He passed out a list of lobbyists the project was checking on. At that time Santorum did not comment.Later that year, Norquist publicly commented, "(Santorum) has gotten me in to talk to all those guys."Santorum also had publicly criticized the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_America" title="Motion Picture Association of America" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Motion Picture Association of America</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing" title="Boeing" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Boeing</a> for hiring former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Administration" class="mw-redirect" title="Clinton Administration" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Clinton Administration</a> officials, but said that was unrelated to his meetings with Norquist.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roll_Call" title="Roll Call" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Roll Call</a> also reported that Abramoff himself attended one of Santorum's meetings in 2001. Santorum says he might have attended but does not specifically recall that.After the disclosures, Santorum announced the jobs list would no longer be part of the meetings.Santorum lost his bid for re-election in 2006.<h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Defenses of the K Street Project</h2>The few Republicans and political conservatives who have chosen to defend the project claim that after 40 years of a near-total Democratic control of Congress, most of the top lobbyists in Washington were former Democratic congressional staffers and aides, since lobbyists are valued for their access to power more than their political ideologies. They might be more loyal to their party and former employers than their present ones.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Street_Project#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a>In fact, Republicans claim, Democrats in Congress had informally done the same thing and forced lobbies to hire former staffers of their own. In this view, the K Street Project was simply a way of ensuring that those lobbying in Congress had political views in line with those who hired them to lobby. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_union" class="mw-redirect" title="Labor union" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Labor unions</a>, they noted, hire people to advocate for them in Washington who share their viewpoints regardless of their access to power.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Street_Project#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Trademark application</h2>On April 6, 2006, Norquist applied, through his organization <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Tax_Reform" title="Americans for Tax Reform" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Americans for Tax Reform</a>, for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark" title="Trademark" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">trademark</a> protection for the term "K Street Project." When the story was reported the following week, he suggested it had been unfairly maligned by the media coverage of the scandal and that it was in fact simply a job-listing service. He promised to enforce it vigorously if it were approved, saying "We will sue anyone who says it wrong and make lots of money."Democrats and liberals ridiculed the idea, with blogger <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Marshall" title="Josh Marshall" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Josh Marshall</a> wondering if Norquist was trying to corner "exclusive rights to engage in organized corruption under this title in the environs of Washington, DC." Others, like Jennifer Crider, spokeswoman for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_Leader_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" class="mw-redirect" title="Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">House minority leader</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi" title="Nancy Pelosi" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Nancy Pelosi</a>, accused Norquist of trying to keep the term from being associated with Republican corruption in an election year. However, it would take the application a year and a half, well after the election, to be approved at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Patent_and_Trademark_Office" title="United States Patent and Trademark Office" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Patent and Trademark Office</a>'s usual pace.Contrary to Norquist's public statements, his formal application requests trademark status only for the project's actual <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo" title="Logo" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">logo</a> (see above).<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Street_Project#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a>However, on July 11, 2006, Norquist filed a second <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark" title="Trademark" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">trademark</a> application, this time seeking protection for the term "The K Street Project promotes the hire of lobbyists at corporations and trade associations who understand free-market economics, who support their principled positions for free trade, against tort law abuse, and for lower and more transparent taxation."<h2 style="background: none; 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Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s1/show" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">the original</a> on March 14, 2010. Retrieved March 29, 2010.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=S.1+-+Honest+Leadership+and+Open+Government+Act+of+2007&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.opencongress.org%2Fbill%2F110-s1%2Fshow&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AK+Street+Project" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Street_Project#cite_ref-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up^{</a> }Chuck Muth, 'In Defense of the K Street Project' <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=11787" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" word-wrap="word-wrap" break-word="break-word" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=11787</a></li><li id="cite_note-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Street_Project#cite_ref-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Archived</a> 2007-03-12 at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Wayback Machine</a>.</li></ol></div></div><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">References[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=K_Street_Project&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">VandeHei, Jim; June 10, 2002, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A22406-2002Jun9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">GOP monitoring lobbyists' politics</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Washington Post</a>.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Nicholas, Peter; August 12, 2002; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20020918174449/http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/3846723.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Santorum sessions are a hot ticket</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Philadelphia_Inquirer" title="The Philadelphia Inquirer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Philadelphia Inquirer</a>.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=K_Street_Project" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Sourcewatch entry on the K Street Project</a> (accessed at 16:35 CST, on January 3, 2006, published under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License" title="GNU Free Documentation License" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">GNU FDL</a>)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/politics/15cong.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Missouri Representative Says He Has Votes to Succeed DeLay"</a>, New York Times, January 14, 2006.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Marshall, Josh; April 11, 2006; <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060908012407/http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/008201.php" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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retrieved April 14, 2006.</li></ul>04-06-2006<ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Reston, Maeve, January 26, 2006; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06026/644541.stm" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Santorum denies ties to 'K Street Project'</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_Post-Gazette" title="Pittsburgh Post-Gazette" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</a>.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Budoff, Carrie; January 27, 2006, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/states/pennsylvania/counties/chester_county/13721981.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Santorum jobs list is cut from meetings</a>, Philadelphia Inquirer.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Muth, Chuck, January 23, 2006; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=11787" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">In Defense of the K Street Project</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Events" title="Human Events" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Human Events</a>.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070930230134/http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/01/27/santorum-and-norquist-video-thank-you-grover/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Santorum and Norquist video: Thank You Grover</a>, Crooks and Liars, retrieved January 27, 2006.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Sheffield, Carrie; April 12, 2006; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060414195828/http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/041206/news2.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Norquist seeks trademark on 'K Street Project'</a>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hill(newspaper)" title="The Hill (newspaper)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Hill</a>; retrieved April 14, 2006.</li></ul><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">External links[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=K_Street_Project&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: External links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0307.confessore.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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</div><div><h1 class="gb-volume-title" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The K Street Gang: The Rise and Fall of the Republican Machine</h1> By Matthew Continetti

“You’ve got to understand, we are ideologues,” Tom DeLay once told a journalist. “We have an agenda. We have a philosophy. I want to repeal the Clean Air Act. No one came to me and said, ‘Please repeal the Clean Air Act.’ We say to the lobbyists, ‘Help us.’ We know what we want to do and we find the people to help us do that. We go to the lobbyists and say, ‘Help us get this in the appropriations bill.”
 
It was a stunning admission. Lawmakers, DeLay was basically saying, relied on paid lobbyists to get bills passed, not the other way around. The federal government was so complex, the challenges of leadership so difficult, that lobbyists were more likely to get things done than the people’s representatives. And DeLay, because of his “ideology,” was happy to play along. The age of K Street had arrived. The Republicans were just along for the ride.
 
from The K Street Gang

What happens when ideologues obtain power? The K Street Gang is the inside story of how a group of self-styled Republican reformers succumbed to the temptations of power, becoming even worse than the Democrats they had been elected to replace. Now, some of those very reformers, including Tom DeLay and Jack Abramoff, are under investigation, their careers and reputations tarnished by the very system they helped to create.

The story begins in 1994, when a landslide victory led to the first GOP-controlled Congress in forty years. The Republicans had it all: a visionary leader in Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, a program for reform in the Contract With America, and a bonafide electoral mandate. They pledged to shrink government, reform politics, and drain the swamp of public malfeasance. Ten years later the Republican party finds itself embroiled in crippling scandals that have already brought about the fall of House majority leader DeLay and may reach all the way into the White House.

In The K Street Gang, you'll meet DeLay, the brazen ideologue and prodigious fundraiser who invited lobbyists to run amok in exchange for campaign contributions; Jack Abramoff, the conservative activist who left a troubled career in Hollywood for a new beginning as a Washington lobbyist, only to fleece his clients out of millions of dollars; Ralph Reed, the former executive director of the Christian Coalition whose principles took a backseat to his business interests; Grover Norquist, the fiery antitax activist who provided intellectual ammunition for the Republican takeover of the lobbying industry, only to see the lobbyists take over his party; and Adam Kidan, a down-on-his-luck Republican businessman who engineered the scam of a lifetime-one that had deadly consequences.

You'll learn how mysterious Russian businessmen with ties to Soviet military intelligence paid for Tom DeLay's trip to Moscow, then sold weapons to Jack Abramoff who resold them to militant Israeli settlers; how Grover Norquist helped arranged meetings between George W. Bush and men who are now alleged to be Islamic terrorists; how a former lifeguard rose from beachbum to aide to one of Washington's most powerful congressmen to high-powered and extremely wealthy lobbyist, and how he lost it all; and how a routine audit of an obscure Indian tribe's finances has led to a widespread public corruption investigation that threatens the political futures of half a dozen congressmen and the political future of the Republican Party.

In The K Street Gang, Matthew Continetti takes us behind the headlines to meet a group of young idealists who came to Washington to do good and ended up staying to do well. It's about the perils of power and the high cost of greed. Above all, it's about how the American conservative movement began as a cause, turned into a career and ended up as a racket.

 By Matthew Continetti</div><div>
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</div><div>“You’ve got to understand, we are ideologues,” Tom DeLay once told a journalist. “We have an agenda. We have a philosophy. I want to repeal the Clean Air Act. No one came to me and said, ‘Please repeal the Clean Air Act.’ We say to the lobbyists, ‘Help us.’ We know what we want to do and we find the people to help us do that. We go to the lobbyists and say, ‘Help us get this in the appropriations bill.”   It was a stunning admission. Lawmakers, DeLay was basically saying, relied on paid lobbyists to get bills passed, not the other way around. The federal government was so complex, the challenges of leadership so difficult, that lobbyists were more likely to get things done than the people’s representatives. And DeLay, because of his “ideology,” was happy to play along. The age of K Street had arrived. The Republicans were just along for the ride.   from The K Street Gang
 What happens when ideologues obtain power? The K Street Gang is the inside story of how a group of self-styled Republican reformers succumbed to the temptations of power, becoming even worse than the Democrats they had been elected to replace. Now, some of those very reformers, including Tom DeLay and Jack Abramoff, are under investigation, their careers and reputations tarnished by the very system they helped to create. The story begins in 1994, when a landslide victory led to the first GOP-controlled Congress in forty years. The Republicans had it all: a visionary leader in Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, a program for reform in the Contract With America, and a bonafide electoral mandate. They pledged to shrink government, reform politics, and drain the swamp of public malfeasance. Ten years later the Republican party finds itself embroiled in crippling scandals that have already brought about the fall of House majority leader DeLay and may reach all the way into the White House.  In The K Street Gang, you'll meet DeLay, the brazen ideologue and prodigious fundraiser who invited lobbyists to run amok in exchange for campaign contributions; Jack Abramoff, the conservative activist who left a troubled career in Hollywood for a new beginning as a Washington lobbyist, only to fleece his clients out of millions of dollars; Ralph Reed, the former executive director of the Christian Coalition whose principles took a backseat to his business interests; Grover Norquist, the fiery antitax activist who provided intellectual ammunition for the Republican takeover of the lobbying industry, only to see the lobbyists take over his party; and Adam Kidan, a down-on-his-luck Republican businessman who engineered the scam of a lifetime-one that had deadly consequences. You'll learn how mysterious Russian businessmen with ties to Soviet military intelligence paid for Tom DeLay's trip to Moscow, then sold weapons to Jack Abramoff who resold them to militant Israeli settlers; how Grover Norquist helped arranged meetings between George W. Bush and men who are now alleged to be Islamic terrorists; how a former lifeguard rose from beachbum to aide to one of Washington's most powerful congressmen to high-powered and extremely wealthy lobbyist, and how he lost it all; and how a routine audit of an obscure Indian tribe's finances has led to a widespread public corruption investigation that threatens the political futures of half a dozen congressmen and the political future of the Republican Party. In The K Street Gang, Matthew Continetti takes us behind the headlines to meet a group of young idealists who came to Washington to do good and ended up staying to do well. It's about the perils of power and the high cost of greed. Above all, it's about how the American conservative movement began as a cause, turned into a career and ended up as a racket.</div><div>
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<h1><a href="http://www.republicreport.org/2012/revolving-door-sunlight-lobby-house/" rel="bookmark">Is the Revolving Door Big Enough?: 400 Former House Staffers Registered to Lobby in Past 2 Years</a></h1>

<a href="http://www.republicreport.org/author/suzanne-merkelson/" title="Posts by Suzanne Merkelson" rel="author">Suzanne Merkelson</a> 2.23.2012

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What happens when you leave your job on the Hill? You’re welcomed with open arms on K Street. At least, that was the case for nearly 400 former House staffers who left Congress to register as lobbyists from 2009 to 2011, according to a new Sunlight Foundation study. Sunlight’s Leo Drutman <a href="http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2012/02/22/house-revolving-door/">writes</a>:

More than two in five former House staffers who registered as lobbyists went to one of Washington’s many lobbying firms. One in five went to lobby for a for-profit corporation, and another one in five went to lobby for a business or trade association. In other words, corporate America is capturing the lion’s share of former Hill staffers’ expertise. A large number also represent state and local governments and universities in their work for lobbying firms.

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This <a href="http://boingboing.net/2012/02/22/congressional-staffers-and-the.html">graph</a> illustrates the overwhelming pull K Street has on staffers departing the Hill:

<a href="http://www.republicreport.org/category/lobbying/page/4/">http://www.republicreport.org/category/lobbying/page/4/</a>

<h1 style=" text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=K_Street_Project">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=K_Street_Project</a> </h1>

<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading">K Street Project</h1>

The K Street Project is a project by the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Republican_Party" title="Republican Party" class="mw-redirect">Republican Party</a> to pressure Washington <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lobbying" title="Lobbying">lobbying</a> firms to hire Republicans in top positions, and to reward loyal <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=GOP" title="GOP" class="mw-redirect">GOP</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lobbyist" title="Lobbyist">lobbyists</a> with access to influential officials. It was launched in 1995, by Republican strategist <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Grover_Norquist" title="Grover Norquist">Grover Norquist</a> and House majority leader <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Thomas_D._DeLay" title="Thomas D. DeLay">Tom DeLay</a>.

K Street in Washington DC is where the big lobbying firms have their headquarters and is sometimes refered to as the fourth branch of government. Lobbying firms have great influence in U.S. national politics due to monetary resources and the revolving door policy of hiring former government officials. It is common practice for politicians to request money from lobbying firms for an exchange in better access to officials and to buy favoritism in policies.

Historically, K Street hires top ex-politicians from both major parties since party in power can vary between elections and among the legislative and executive branches in government.

During most of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_Walker_Bush" title="George Walker Bush">George W. Bush</a> administration, the Republican party had majority control of both houses of Congress, in addition to control of the White House. DeLay of the House, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Santorum" title="Rick Santorum">Rick Santorum</a> of the Senate, and Grover Norquist took this opportunity to expand the K Street Project by pressuring major lobbying firms to hire only Republicans in any new or open positions.

But in June 2004, the Washington Post reported that the power of the K Street Project might be waning. "According to a review of job listings in Influence.biz, a lobbying newsletter, more than 40 percent of lobbyists with identifiable party backgrounds hired in the past six months have been Democrats. During the same period a year earlier, Democrats constituted only 30 percent of those hired." <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21972-2004Jul1.html" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21972-2004Jul1.html" rel="nofollow">[1]</a>

With "Sen. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Forbes_Kerry" title="John Forbes Kerry">John F. Kerry</a> (D-Mass.) running neck and neck with <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_Walker_Bush" title="George Walker Bush">President Bush</a> in most polls and with the outlook for the Senate a tossup, a wide range of interest groups are filling some of their lobbying and public relations openings with Democrats -- just in case the center of influence switches. 'There is some bet-hedging going on that wasn't going on a year and a half ago,' said <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Thomas_Hale_Boggs_Jr.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thomas Hale Boggs Jr. (page does not exist)">Thomas Hale Boggs Jr.</a> of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Patton_Boggs" title="Patton Boggs">Patton Boggs</a> LLP, one of Washington's largest lobbying-law firms." --<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21972-2004Jul1_3.html" class="external text" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21972-2004Jul1_3.html" rel="nofollow">Washington Post, July 1, 2004</a>.

In September 2004, The Hill reported the opposite K Street hiring trend: "Retiring House Democrats are feeling a cold draft from K Street as they seek post-congressional employment at lobbying firms, trade groups and corporations. By contrast, K Street is aggressively courting GOP lawmakers who have announced their retirements, suggesting that the business community is confident the GOP will retain the Speaker's gavel in January and that business wants to fortify its Republican Rolodexes." <a href="http://thehill.com/news/091504/kstreet.aspx" class="external autonumber" title="http://thehill.com/news/091504/kstreet.aspx" rel="nofollow">[2]</a>

Not everyone agreed with the conclusion that "the 'K Street Project' is alive and well"; "Democrats argue that the crop of retiring lawmakers seeking employment is not broad enough to discern a pattern or divine the intentions of K Street." Retiring Republican Congresswoman <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jennifer_Dunn" title="Jennifer Dunn">Jennifer Dunn</a>, who was interviewing with 15 firms, said K Street's current GOP bias is needed to balance a long period of Democratic bias, when the Dems enjoyed House majority party status for 40 years. "K Street is still only 30 percent Republican, so there's a lot more work to do to make it even," said Dunn.<a href="http://thehill.com/news/091504/kstreet.aspx" class="external autonumber" title="http://thehill.com/news/091504/kstreet.aspx" rel="nofollow">[3]</a>

<h2>SourceWatch Resources</h2>

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Grover_Norquist" title="Grover Norquist">Grover Norquist</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Thomas_D._DeLay" title="Thomas D. DeLay">Thomas D. DeLay</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Santorum" title="Rick Santorum">Rick Santorum</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Patton_Boggs" title="Patton Boggs">Patton Boggs</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lobbying_firms" title="Lobbying firms">Lobbying firms</a></li>

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<h2>External links</h2>

Official Website: <a href="http://www.kstreetproject.com/" class="external text" title="http://www.kstreetproject.com/" rel="nofollow">KStreetProject.com</a>

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<li>Geoff Earle, "<a href="http://thehill.com/news/111604/blacklist.aspx" class="external text" title="http://thehill.com/news/111604/blacklist.aspx" rel="nofollow">Dems fear lobbying blacklist</a>," The Hill, November 16, 2004.</li>

<li>Hans Nichols, "<a href="http://thehill.com/news/091504/kstreet.aspx" class="external text" title="http://thehill.com/news/091504/kstreet.aspx" rel="nofollow">K Street freezes out Dems</a>," The Hill, September 15, 2004.</li>

<li>Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, "<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21972-2004Jul1.html" class="external text" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21972-2004Jul1.html" rel="nofollow">Going Left on K Street: More Democrats Hired to Lobby Despite GOP Efforts to Shut Them Out</a>," Washington Post, July 2, 2004.</li>

<li>Nicholas Confessore, <a href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0307.confessore.html" class="external text" title="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0307.confessore.html" rel="nofollow">"Welcome to the Machine,"</a>, The Washington Monthly, July/August 2003. *</li>

<li>David Brancaccio talks to Marty Kaplan, <a href="http://www.marketplace.org/play/audio.php?media=/2003/07/01_mpp&start=00:00:17:24.0&end=00:00:21:38.0" class="external text" title="http://www.marketplace.org/play/audio.php?media=/2003/07/01_mpp&start=00:00:17:24.0&end=00:00:21:38.0" rel="nofollow">"Pressure Afoot at K Street"</a> (audio), Marketplace, July 1, 2003.</li>

<li>Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, "<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/26/AR2005062600905.html" class="external text" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/26/AR2005062600905.html" rel="nofollow">Congress Has No Reason to Favor Either Side as Phone and Cable Companies Battle</a>," Washington Post, June 27, 2005.</li>

<li>Carrie Sheffield, "<a href="http://thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/041206/news2.html" class="external text" title="http://thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/041206/news2.html" rel="nofollow">Norquist seeks trademark on Ã¢ÂÂK Street ProjectÃ¢ÂÂ name</a>," The Hill, April 12, 2006.</li>

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<h1 align="center" style="text-align: left;">One-Party State</h1>

<h1 align="center" style="text-align: left;">Pumping Irony</h1>

<h4 align="center" style="text-align: left;">excerpted from the book</h4>

<h1 align="center" style="text-align: left;">Banana Republicans</h1>

<h2 align="center" style="text-align: left;">How the Right Wing Is Turning America into a One-Party State</h2>

<h3 align="center" style="text-align: left;">by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber</h3>

<h4 align="center" style="text-align: left;">Jeremy Tarcher/Penguin, 2004</h4>

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Much of the real power and influence-peddling in Washington, D.C., begins on K Street, a nondescript corridor of office buildings located a few blocks north of the White House. K Street is where the big lobbying firms and corporate trade associations have their headquarters. It is sometimes referred to as the fourth branch of government. Many of the top K Street lobbyists are, in fact, former government officials -senators, congressmen and their staffs who, after retiring from office (or after losing their last election) go to work as hired advocates for companies and industries. Their ability to influence government policy comes in part from the personal relationships they have with their former colleagues, and from the campaign contributions that corporations can channel to politicians who do their bidding. Lobbyists, as columnist Michael Kinsley has observed, are "a group of people who charge a lot of money to give disproportionate influence in our democracy to people with even more money.""</h4>

<h4>Historically, however, the power of corporate lobbyists has been somewhat mitigated by the two-party system. Since the party in power could vary from one election to the next, K Street had to hire top names from both major parties as a way of ensuring access. Ideological differences between the parties therefore limited the ability of corporations to control the policy agenda. In addition to corporations, the Democratic Party needed to appeal to constituencies including the labor movement, minorities, environmentalists and other liberals who have historically turned out as voters and activists in support of the party's candidates. As Nicholas Confessore observed in the July/August 2003 issue of the Washington Monthly, the relationship between Democrats and lobbyists contained an "Inherent tension": "For the most part, K Street groups supported Democrats because they had to and Republicans because they wanted to. The Democrats needed corporate money to stay competitive, but were limited by the pull of their liberal, labor-oriented base. Although the party became generally more pro-business during the 1980s, it had few natural constituencies on K Street."" After Republicans achieved control over all sectors of the federal government in the early 21st century, however, corporate lobbyists were happy to jettison bipartisanship and throw their weight solidly behind the Republican machine, which targeted control of K Street by pressuring the major lobbying firms to hire only Republicans.</h4>

<h4>Party strategist Grover Norquist is one of the leading masterminds of this strategy. Working with Tom DeLay, the House majority leader, he launched the K Street Project in 1995 to compile a database of lobbyists. The database lists lobbyists' names, where they work, which party they belong to, where they have worked politically and how much money they have contributed to the candidates and causes of both parties. The purpose of the list is to decide who "deserves" access to the White House, Congress and federal agencies. Contributions to the wrong party can "buy you enemies," explained Congressman Thomas M. Davis III of Virginia, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee." According to Marshall Wittmann, a former Christian Coalition staffer who no", works for Senator John McCain, the pressure on lobbyists has made DeLay "the 'Dirty Harry of Capitol Hill, the bad cop. Every K Street lobbyist is shaking in their boots because K Street lives on access, and DeLay can shut off their oxygen.""</h4>

<h4>Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum is another key player in the K Street Project. In the months following the 2000 elections that gave Republicans the White House, Santorum began convening a private meeting each Tuesday morning of Republican lobbyists, attended sometimes by representatives from the White House and other senators. Democrats and journalists were not invited. "The chief purpose of these gatherings is to discuss jobs specifically, the top one or two positions at the biggest and most important industry trade associations and corporate offices," Confessore reported. "Every week, the lobbyists present pass around a list of the jobs available and discuss whom to support. Santorum's responsibility is to make sure each one is filled by a loyal Republican-a senator's chief of staff, for instance, or a top White House aide, or another lobbyist whose reliability has been demonstrated. After Santorum settles on a candidate, the lobbyists present make sure it is known whom the Republican leadership favors.""</h4>

<h4>Republican dominance on K Street has further enhanced the party's fund-raising advantage over Democrats. "An analysis of political donations by industry groups shows that over the past decade, 19 major sectors have shifted from a roughly 50-50 split between the two main parties-or in some cases, a slightly proDemocratic tilt-to a solid alignment with the Republican Party, which now enjoys advantages exceeding 5 to I in some of these sectors," the Washington Post reported in November 2002." Key industries that have shifted Republican include accounting, aerospace, alcoholic beverages, commercial banking, defense, health care and pharmaceuticals. "Just like the Democrats get a 90-10 split from the trial lawyers and labor, we will have 90-10 in the staffing on K Street and 90-10 business giving," Grover Norquist gloated in November 2002. But trial lawyers and labor give only a fraction of the amount that corporations donate to election campaigns. In 2002, contributions from businesses accounted for 73 percent of all election giving, compared to only 7 percent for labor. (Most of the remainder came from "ideological" or "other" donors, such as environmental groups, the National Rifle Association, clergy or nonprofit organizations.)'</h4>

<h4>In place of the "Inherent tension" that existed between Democratic politicians and K Street lobbyists, their ideological closeness with Republicans has made the party and Its corporate supporters virtually indistinguishable. "Tom DeLay, Grover Norquist, and others have set up a K Street patronage operation that effectively obliterates the distinction between conservatives and corporatists," conservative columnist David Brooks observed in June 2002.</h4>

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"Beginning in the 1990s, Washington's corporate offices and trade associations began to resemble immature campaign committees, replete with pollsters and message consultants," Confessore writes. "To supplement PAC [Political Action Committee] giving, which is limited by federal election laws, corporations vastly increased their advocacy budgets, with trade organizations spending millions of dollars in soft money on issue ad campaigns in congressional districts. And thanks to the growing number of associations whose executives are beholden to DeLay or Santorum, these earnings are increasingly put in the service of GOP candidates and ralses." During the Iraq War, for example, radio conglomerate Clear Channel Communications had its stations sponsor pro-war rallies nationwide and even banned the Dixie Chicks from their playlist after one band member criticized Bush. Companies such as General Motors, Verizon and Morgan Stanley have lobbied their stockholders and customers to promote Bush administration tax cuts, and the pharmaceutical industry both helped write and promote Bush's Medicare plan.</h4>

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<table bgcolor="#000000" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="small name" colspan="2" align="left" bgcolor="#7b849c" width="100%">The K Street Project was launched in 1995, by Republican strategist Grover Norquist and House majority leader Tom DeLay.  </td></tr><tr><td class="small" align="left" bgcolor="#e0e0e0" width="100%">Submitted by <a class="toollink" href="http://www.politicalfriendster.com/board/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=2403">fedup</a></td><td class="small" align="right" bgcolor="#e0e0e0" nowrap="nowrap" width="0">2006-01-05 11:30:53</td></tr><tr><td class="small" colspan="2" align="left" bgcolor="#ffffff">

K Street in Washington DC is where the big lobbying firms have their headquarters and is sometimes refered to as the fourth branch of government.

The fallout of the K Street Project has resulted in well-connected Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff agreeing to give evidence against top politicians whom he allegedly bribed, in what analysts predict may prove to be the biggest congressional scandal in American history.

Tom DeLay, who was instrumental in orchestrating victories in 2000, 2002 and 2004, is at the centre of the investigation for his close financial ties to Mr. Abramoff.

He is also facing charges in a separate case involving political money-laundering in Texas and had to step down from his job as House majority leader last year.

A senior White House budget official, David Safavian, has been arrested for failing to report gifts from the indicted lobbyist.

<table bgcolor="#000000" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="small name" colspan="2" align="left" bgcolor="#7b849c" width="100%">101 Con is K Street in a box, a private sector Pentagon where ten stories of lobbyists plot their next thrust on behalf of the life-insurance industry, the mining industry, or the retail hardware industry. It overlooks the Capitol and some say overshadows it as well.  </td></tr></tbody></table>

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