{"id":50112,"date":"2015-04-16T22:35:43","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T04:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/16\/the-lobbyist-who-works-hand-in-hand-and-more-with-the-congressman.html"},"modified":"2015-05-06T09:27:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T15:27:32","slug":"the-lobbyist-who-works-hand-in-hand-and-more-with-the-congressman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/16\/the-lobbyist-who-works-hand-in-hand-and-more-with-the-congressman.html","title":{"rendered":"The Lobbyist who works hand in hand (and more) with the Congressman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The basic idea that the Chairman of the House Transportation (R-Penn.) and Infrastructure Committee is in a romantic relationship with a top lobbyist for an airline trade association pushing a revamp of the Federal Aviation Administration would be eyebrow-raising enough.<\/p>\n<p>That there&#39;s apparently no formal ethical rule about &quot;sleeping with the regulatory enemy&quot; would raise the eyebrows a few more inches.<\/p>\n<p>Reading about the <i>further<\/i> entanglements between Rep. Bill Shuster and the Airlines for America group is likely to cause a horrific tear in the scalp as the eyebrows try to crest over the top of the skull.<\/p>\n<p>One of &quot;your&quot; Representatives, ladies and gentlemen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/04\/bill-shuster-admits-personal-relationship-with-lobbyist-117054.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/1-yBbLkUYuzGo2nIRH2zOJvGWg_T5XLy81rXn0glfY3O8YK5AY0eKjEHMYYLXlLVLjyahFXir0fFQjItgAlk2dhQfXZI-1vp0TlaknCsqIMlP71XaU1vAa6hJhCnJzYvZXCMkYzfRg=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/04\/bill-shuster-admits-personal-relationship-with-lobbyist-117054.html'>Bill Shuster admits &lsquo;private and personal relationship&rsquo; with airline lobbyist<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nHouse Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster is dating a top lobbyist for the leading U.S. airline trade association, an organization that spends millions of dollars trying to influence his panel.The Pennsylvania Republican is currently at the center of high-stakes negotiations to enact the most sweeping overhaul of the Federal&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/fsK1g5sm1hb'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The basic idea that the Chairman of the House Transportation (R-Penn.) and Infrastructure Committee is in a romantic relationship with a top lobbyist for an airline trade association pushing a revamp of the Federal Aviation Administration would be eyebrow-raising enough. That there&#39;s apparently no formal ethical rule about &quot;sleeping with the regulatory enemy&quot; would raise &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/16\/the-lobbyist-who-works-hand-in-hand-and-more-with-the-congressman.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Lobbyist who works hand in hand (and more) with the Congressman&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,374],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-money-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128156,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/25\/when-liberty-becomes-libertine.html","url_meta":{"origin":50112,"position":0},"title":"When Liberty Becomes Libertine","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 25-Sep-15 4:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"In recent years we've seen \"religious freedom\" as the basis for court claims about people wanting to, in fact, discriminate and use their religious beliefs to hurt other people. \"If you stop me from doing something that my religion tells me I should do, then you're harshing my religious liberty\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":41188,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/24\/protective-lobbyist-to-the-rescue.html","url_meta":{"origin":50112,"position":1},"title":"Protective Lobbyist to the Rescue!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 24-Feb-14 11:04pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Thank God we have a K Street lobbyist to protect us from \"a horrifying prospect for every mom in the country.\"Just waiting to hear about the \"political support\" he claims is lined up being the bill.Reshared post from +Kee Hinckley Lobbyist drafts bill to ban gays from NFL \u201dWe are\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27006,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/08\/theres-huge-amounts-of-money-involved-in-the-war-on-drugs.html","url_meta":{"origin":50112,"position":2},"title":"There&#39;s huge amounts of money involved in the War on Drugs","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 8-Mar-12 8:19pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Money for police departments, police unions, private prisons, prison unions, alcohol producers, drug companies ... and they're not afraid to spend some of that money to make sure that the War goes on ... #ddtb Embedded Link Exclusive: Why Can\u2019t You Smoke Pot? 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