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Two SOPA Writers Become Entertainment Lobbyists
12/11/2011

Schwit1 writes "According to Politico, 'A pair of senior Hill aides at the center of a brewing battle between Hollywood and Silicon Valley are packing their bags for K Street, where they’ll work for two of the 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing


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share this: lobby shops trying to drive their former fellowship in chamber on the very same issue. Allison Halataei, former deputy chief of staff and parliamentarian to House Judiciary admiral Lamar Smith (R-Texas), and Lauren Pastarnack, a Republican who has served as a senior aide on the Senate Judiciary Committee, worked on online piracy bills that would push infobahn companies like Google, Yahoo and Facebook to shut down websites that offer illegal copies of blockbuster films and chart-topping songs.' Techdirt adds, 'Pastarnack went to the MPAA where she'll be "director of regimentation relations" and Halataei to the NMPA (music publishers and songwriters) where she'll be "chief liaison to Capitol Hill." The Politico article linked above notes that this kind of "revolving door" is all too common. It may not be straightaway




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part of speech:adverb
definition:with precision or outright conformity.
bang corrupt, but to the public it sure feels corrupt.'"



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