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ACCELUS SUMMIT: Former U.S. SEC chief Pitt warns against imposing regulations abroad, urges industry engagement
To keep up, compliance and regulation professionals are now spending 20 percent of their time just on tracking regulatory changes. – Harvey Pitt, SEC
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Obama taps former lobbyist Wheeler as telecoms regulator
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Tom Wheeler, nominated by President Barack Obama on Wednesday to become the next U.S. communications regulator, is expected to face tough scrutiny from senators over his past close ties to the very industries he would oversee.
Obama taps ally, former lobbyist Wheeler for telecoms regulator
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Wednesday nominated venture capitalist and former wireless and cable lobbyist Tom Wheeler to be the top media and telecommunications regulator.
Former Ohio Congressman Wilson dies
AKRON, Ohio (Reuters) – Former Ohio Democratic Congressman Charlie Wilson has died from complications from a stroke he suffered during a vacation in Florida in February, the Ohio Democratic party said on Monday.
At least 28 of Max Baucus’s former aides are now tax lobbyists
Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) is chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. That means he’s the guy in the Senate charged with writing any overhaul of the nation’s tax laws. And that means that anyone who has ever worked for him … Continue reading
At least 28 of Max Baucus’s former aides are now tax lobbyists
Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) is chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. That means he’s the guy in the Senate charged with writing any overhaul of the nation’s tax laws. And that means that anyone who has ever worked for him … Continue reading
Is the Plan B battle over? Former FDA official Susan Wood hopes so.
Susan Wood resigned as director of the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Women’s Health in 2005, when the George W. Bush administration chose to delay indefinitely a decision on whether emergency contraceptives should be sold over the counter. She … Continue reading
A fiscal warning from two former budget chiefs
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two former budget chiefs who worked for presidents from opposing political parties said on Monday that the government should reduce military spending, scale back Social Security payments and end decade-old income tax cuts to reduce the … Continue reading
Former surgeon general Everett Koop: An unsung hero in the fight against AIDS
Former surgeon general C. Everett Koop died Monday in New Hampshire at age 96. Koop is justly renowned for his role in the tobacco wars of the 1990s. His repeated warnings that tobacco use was deadly and increasing among children … Continue reading
Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop dies at 96
(Reuters) – Former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, whose anti-smoking campaign and outspoken, controversial positions on abortion, AIDS and drugs, elevated the obscure post to one of national influence, died at his home in Hanover, New Hampshire, on Monday. … Continue reading