The NYTimes reported today, in a move that wasn’t shocking to anyone, that lobbiests have been the ones setting policy. Well they reported that they would write blurbs for politicians’
In an interview, Representative Bill Pascrell Jr., Democrat of New Jersey, said: “I regret that the language was the same. I did not know it was.” He said he got his statement from his staff and “did not know where they got the information from.”
Would it not be prudent to do at least a little fact checking before giving a speech? Since its you who is embarassed and not your speech writers.
The lobbyists, employed by Genentech and by two Washington law firms, were remarkably successful in getting the statements printed in the Congressional Record under the names of different members of Congress.
I wonder how much it costs to buy a statement in the Congressional Record. This kind of behavior has a lot to do with why we alwaysseem to see the same talking point from the talking heads for about a week.
