People on the Hill dont stay as long, he says. You dont get as good people on the Hill. The expertise on policymaking more and more has moved to the private sector, and its moved to represent those organizations and companies who can afford to pay for it, which generally isnt you and me. Its big banks and Big Oil and big companies. Its a little different when the American Cancer Society gives you some technical assistance on a cancer funding bill versus when one of the largest banks in the world, which was just recently bailed out by the public, writes you a bill that will give it access to public deposit insurance to fund its exotic financial activities, he says. npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2013/11/11/243973620/when-lobbyists-literally-write-the-bill?utm_content=socialflow&utm_campaign=nprfacebook&utm_source=npr&utm_medium=facebook
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