Financial Services Roundtable

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</div><div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">The Financial Services Roundtable (FSR) is a U.S. trade association that lobbies on behalf of 100 of the top banks, credit card companies, insurance and securities services firms operating in the United States. Its membership includes many bailed-out banks including: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Citigroup" title="Citigroup" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Citigroup</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/JPMorgan_Chase" title="JPMorgan Chase" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">JPMorgan Chase</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bank_of_America" title="Bank of America" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Bank of America</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wells_Fargo" title="Wells Fargo" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Wells Fargo</a>, and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/PNC_Financial_Services_Group,Inc." title="PNC Financial Services Group, Inc." style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">PNC</a>.
<div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Financial_Services_Roundtable#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Financial_Services_Roundtable#Member_companies" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1 Member companies</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Financial_Services_Roundtable#Political_contributions" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2 Political contributions</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Financial_Services_Roundtable#Lobbying" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3 Lobbying</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Financial_Services_Roundtable#Embarrassed_by_opulence_of_meeting" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4 Embarrassed by opulence of meeting</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Financial_Services_Roundtable#Image-improvement_campaign" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">5 Image-improvement campaign</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Financial_Services_Roundtable#PR_Case_study" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6 PR Case study</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Financial_Services_Roundtable#Personnel" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">7 Personnel</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Financial_Services_Roundtable#Officers" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">8 Officers</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Financial_Services_Roundtable#Contact_details" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">9 Contact details</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Financial_Services_Roundtable#Articles_and_resources" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">10 Articles and resources</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Financial_Services_Roundtable#Related_SourceWatch_articles" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">10.1 Related SourceWatch articles</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Financial_Services_Roundtable#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">10.2 References</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Financial_Services_Roundtable#External_articles" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">10.3 External articles</a></li></ul></li></ul></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Member companies</h2>Example companies:<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Financial_Services_Roundtable#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Allianz_Life_Insurance_Company_of_North_America&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Allstate" title="Allstate" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Allstate</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Capital_One" title="Capital One" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Capital One</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Charles_Schwab" title="Charles Schwab" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Charles Schwab</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Fidelity_Investments" title="Fidelity Investments" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Fidelity Investments</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/General_Electric" title="General Electric" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">General Electric</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/State_Farm" title="State Farm" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">State Farm</a></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Political contributions</h2>Financial Services Roundtable gave $386,857 to federal candidates in the 2010 election as of October 2010 through its <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Political_action_committee" title="Political action committee" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">political action committee</a> - 46% to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Democrats" title="Democrats" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Democrats</a> and 54% to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Republican_Party(USA)" title="Republican Party (USA)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Republicans</a>. In 2008 it gave $341,323 - 46% to Democrats and 54% to Republicans. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Financial_Services_Roundtable#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Lobbying</h2>The group spent $6,900,000 for <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lobbying" title="Lobbying" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">lobbying</a> in 2009. $935,000 went to outside <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lobbying_firms" title="Lobbying firms" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">lobbying firms</a> such as <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/The_Smith-Free_Group" title="The Smith-Free Group" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Smith-Free Group</a> and<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Winston%26_Strawn" title="Winston & Strawn" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Winston & Strawn</a> with the remainder being spent using in-house lobbyists. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Financial_Services_Roundtable#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Embarrassed by opulence of meeting</h2>The Financial Services Roundtable (FSR) was embarrassed by the opulence of the location of its March 2009 Spring Meeting in Naples, Florida, after Anna Burger of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Change_to_Win_Coalition" title="Change to Win Coalition" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Change to Win</a> sent a letter of complaint. The group then moved its meeting to a secret location in Washington, DC. Invitees included Treasury Secretary <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Timothy_F.Geithner" title="Timothy F. Geithner" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Timothy Geithner</a>, Sen. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_McCain" title="John McCain" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">John McCain</a>, R-Ariz., Rep. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Barney_Frank" title="Barney Frank" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Barney Frank</a>, D-Mass., Sen. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Max_Baucus" title="Max Baucus" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Max Baucus</a>, D-Mont., FDIC chair <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sheila_Bair" title="Sheila Bair" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Sheila Bair</a>, and SEC chair <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mary_Schapiro" title="Mary Schapiro" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Mary Schapiro</a>. Anna Burger also called on the group to immediately stop all lobbying against the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Employee_Free_Choice_Act" title="Employee Free Choice Act" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Employee Free Choice Act</a> which involves the rights of workers to unionize and "to revoke the membership of any bailout recipient that is engaged in similar partisan political activity."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Financial_Services_Roundtable#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[4]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Image-improvement campaign</h2>In 2010 Bloomberg reported that the Financial Services Roundtable was "starting an image-improvement campaign aimed at showing the financial industry as trustworthy and a positive force after more than a year of being chastised in Washington." The public relations campaign is being led by three firms: public relations specialists <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/APCO_Worldwide" title="APCO Worldwide" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">APCO Worldwide</a>, pollster <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Luntz_Maslansky_Strategic_Research" title="Luntz Maslansky Strategic Research" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Luntz</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Luntz_Maslansky_Strategic_Research" title="Luntz Maslansky Strategic Research" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Maslansky Strategic Research</a> and DDB, an advertising agency owned by New York-based <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Omnicom_Group" title="Omnicom Group" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Omnicom Group</a> Inc.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Financial_Services_Roundtable#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">PR Case study</h2>PR firm <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Qorvis_Communications" title="Qorvis Communications" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Qorvis </a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Qorvis_Communications" title="Qorvis Communications" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Communications</a> did work for the group and has this case study on their website:<dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">The Financial Services Roundtable, one of the most important and prestigious trade associations in Washington, D.C., wanted a way to demonstrate to U.S. senators and representatives that Roundtable members were important, both economically and politically, to their states and congressional districts. The Roundtable had to provide them with specific but usable information that clearly demonstrated the positive effects of its members on any given local economy.</dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">Qorvis began the project by designing an extensive internal communications campaign to explain the project to Roundtable members. Qorvis then designed an extensive database, collected information from member companies, sorted all of the facilities and employees by state and congressional district, put the information in a specially created template and then analyzed the information for each of the 535 districts and 50 states. The resulting 750 page document was embraced by the Roundtable’s members and staff. In fact, the document has become a routine part of the association’s daily efforts on Capitol Hill.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Financial_Services_Roundtable#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a></dd></dl><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Personnel</h2><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Financial_Services_Roundtable#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Steve_Bartlett" title="Steve Bartlett" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Steve Bartlett</a>, CEO</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Richard_M.Whiting&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Richard M. Whiting (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Richard M. Whiting</a>, Executive Director and General Counsel</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_H.Dalton&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John H. Dalton (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">John H. Dalton</a>, President, Housing Policy Council</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Scott_E.Talbott" title="Scott E. Talbott" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Scott E. Talbott</a>, Senior vice president of government affairs</li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Officers</h2><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Financial_Services_Roundtable#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Richard_K.Davis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Richard K. Davis (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Richard K. Davis</a>, Chairman</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/James_E.Rohr" title="James E. Rohr" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">James E. Rohr</a>, Chairman-Elect</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Robert_P.Kelly&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert P. Kelly (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Robert P. Kelly</a>, Treasurer</li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Contact details</h2>1001 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Suite 500 South
Washington, D.C. 20004
Phone: 202-289-4322
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background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; -webkit-user-select: none; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00193177&cycle=2010" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E) 100% 50%;">2010 PAC Summary Data</a>, Open Secrets, accessed October 2010.</li><li id="cite_note-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Financial_Services_Roundtable#cite_ref-3" style="text-decoration: none; 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background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; -webkit-user-select: none; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.changetowin.org/for-the-media/press-releases-and-statements/financial-services-roundtable-responds-to-change-to-win-demand-moves-spring-meeting.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E) 100% 50%;">Financial Services Roundtable Responds to Change To Win Demand, Moves Spring Meeting</a>", Change to Win, February 12, 2009.</li><li id="cite_note-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Financial_Services_Roundtable#cite_ref-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; -webkit-user-select: none; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Julianna Goldman and Robert Schmidt, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aFb60nvnfyZM" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E) 100% 50%;">Big Banks Begin Effort to Improve Image, 'Set Record Straight'</a>", Bloomberg, March 24, 2010.</li><li id="cite_note-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Financial_Services_Roundtable#cite_ref-6" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; -webkit-user-select: none; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.qorvis.com/clients/case-studies/financial-services-roundtable-government-and-media-relations" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E) 100% 50%;">PR Case study</a>, Qorvis Communications, accessed October 2010.</li><li id="cite_note-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Financial_Services_Roundtable#cite_ref-7" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; -webkit-user-select: none; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fsround.org/about/staff.htm" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E) 100% 50%;">Staff</a>, Financial Services Roundtable, accessed October 2010.</li><li id="cite_note-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Financial_Services_Roundtable#cite_ref-8" style="text-decoration: none; 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</div><div class="field-item even">Tim Pawlenty Leaves Romney Campaign to Lobby for Banks that Crashed the Economy</div></div>

Whatever

aspirations Tim Pawlenty may have had about snagging the vice

presidency in a hypothetical Mitt Romney administration are officially

over, as the former Minnesota governor takes a big-wig financial

industry lobbying job.The <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2012/president/candidates/romney/2012/09/20/pawlenty-resigns-from-romney-campaign-lobby/vi30eLiSvys9rWVoZpCa1O/story.html">AP reports</a> [1]

that Pawlenty is stepping down from his role as national co-chair of

the Romney campaign to take the gig at Financial Services Roundtable,

which starts November 1. Pawlenty will be CEO of the lobbying group,

which represents Bank of America, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo among its

100 or so clients. The <a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-pawlenty-bank-lobbyist-financial-servies-roundtable-20120920,0,6279069.story">LA Times</a> [2]:<blockquote>Pawlenty

suceeds Steve Bartlett, a former Republican congressman from Texas who

has headed the group since 1999. He announced his retirement this year

and Pawlenty will take over on Nov. 1.The Financial Services

Roundtable is a key player in Washington and has worked limit the impact

on the industry of some provisions of the Dodd-Frank

financial reform law. When the legislation was passed in 2010, Bartlett

said, "There is plenty here to like and a good bit to question."</blockquote>