Bartlett, S
<p><strong>Former Congressman Steve Bartlett (R-TX) has made at least $9,192,761 as the chief lobbyist for an association of investment banks, including Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and JP Morgan Chase</strong>. Bartlett has worked as the head of the Financial Services Roundtable, a trade association he joined in 1999. Republic Report could only obtain disclosures from recent years, providing us an incomplete picture of his salary. <strong>Bartlett’s salary at the Financial Services Roundtable is 1770% higher</strong> than his last year in Congress.</p><p>
</p><p></p><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Tim Pawlenty Leaves Romney Campaign to Lobby for Banks that Crashed the Economy</div></div>
<p>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.</p><p>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> <span class="print-footnote">[1]</span>
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> <span class="print-footnote">[2]</span>:</p><blockquote><p>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.</p><p>The Financial Services
Roundtable is a key player in Washington and has worked limit the impact
on the industry of some provisions of the <span class="taxInlineTagLink">Dodd</span>-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."</p></blockquote>