Hmmm … let’s say you were planning the schedule for Monday’s Fiscal Responsibility Summit at the White House, and you were looking for candidates to talk about “Contracting and Procurement.” Would you select the longtime defense-industry lobbyist who had to get an exemption from ethics rules in order to win his Pentagon post?
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=145728