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Thursday, June 05, 2008 --- 85 days ago http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/06/revolving-door-hasterts-new-gi.html
| Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert didn't have far to jump between Capitol Hill and K Street. Although a spokesman from his soon-to-be employer, Dickstein Shapiro , told the Washington Post that the Illinois Republican will merely be advising the law and lobbying firm's clients, he's bringing with him a resume padded with the type of access to Congress that lobbying firms covet. Hastert was House Speaker between 1999 and 2006 and resigned from Congress last November. During his congressional career, he raised a total of $19.6 million, with AT&T , the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the American Medical Association among his most generous contributors. During his career he also maintained an active leadership PAC, called Keep Our Majority PAC , through which he gave nearly $3.5 million to other candidates and lawmakers. The PAC most recently reported having $480,000 in the bank, money that Hastert could continue to dole out to lawmakers, even though he's not their leader anymore. Hastert lost his leadership position to the new Democratic majority in 2006. At the end of his congressional career, he became a member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, likely a perk for Dickstein Shapiro, which reported lobbying on energy and nuclear power, among other issues, last year. The firms' clients include various energy companies, in addition to companies in industries that contributed heavily to Hastert while he was in Congr ... |
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