We also need to close the revolving door between Capitol Hill and K Street.
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But K Street is also eyeing the compromise with caution, for a variety of reasons.
He likes his position on campaign finance and K Street, the true hub of DC influence.
But K Street could nevertheless end up hurting Mr Bush with the K-Mart crowd.
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Moreover, the appearance of growing public opposition to Obama affected corporate donors on K Street.
The oil industry on K Street might convince politicians to throw out that play in the playbook.
So they may remember this first day, but they'll remember it from some place on K Street.
We also need to break the link between K Street and Capitol Hill.
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The cascading regulatory decrees and an avalanche of government largesse will now flow the other way down K Street.
Instead of coming from the highest paid lobbyists on K Street, change will come from Americans organizing across the nation.
The look that says: I went all the way to K Street and all I got was this lousy shirt.
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Vacant space has long been in short supply in Washington's most desirable office districts, such as the lobbyist-filled K Street corridor.
In fact, he is on the wrong side of the regulatory battle even if he is lobbying for his economic worldview on K Street.
When law firm McGuireWoods LLP shopped for a new location this spring on K Street, the prime location for lobbying firms, it wasn't expecting any bargains.
On K Street, the home of the Washington lobbying industry, the new president quickly learns that the new boss is the same as the old boss.
Another part of that effort is the K Street Project, named for the Washington street where lobby firms tend to settle, between the Capitol and the White House.
Other issues, such as tax reform to close loopholes, have simply been abandoned because they seem so impossible given the power of lobbyists and campaign contributors who lurk on K Street.
The trouble with lobbyists is that their appetite only grows with the eating as anyone who visits Morton's steak-house or any of the other temples to gluttony around K Street can testify.
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But those who say they want to fix gridlock and get government working again, then turn around and disappear into the K Street maw, demonstrate that hypocrisy and cynicism do indeed rule Washington.
"Democrats are now in power in Congress and so the money that was flowing to Republicans from K Street is now going to them, " said Jane Hamsher, founder of the political blog Firedoglake.
Although Obama did implement some new lobbying rules upon taking power, he has shown minimal interest in the procedural problems that he highlighted on the campaign trail: the power of interest groups, the role of private money in campaigns, the revolving door between K Street and Capitol Hill and more.
But the biggest problem with K-Street conservatism is that it puts producers in front of everybody else.
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The Republicans celebrated last month's triumph by fast-tracking several K-Street favourites: exempting older coal-fired plants from new anti-pollution rules, and making it easier to open national forests to logging and drilling.
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In a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, Dennis K. Berman notes that one in five tax dollars in New York State comes from Wall Street.
This should come as no surprise because Wall Street solutions to retirement problems, even in the corporate and 401(k) marketplace, have always involved greater fees to Wall Street.
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The competition Netflix faces in the U.K. and Ireland has made Wall Street hesitant.
These plans became so popular that 60% of American workers now have a 401(k), according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Earlier this year, Lombard Street Research estimated the U.K.'s total net debt excluding the financial sector at 237% of GDP, slightly higher than Japan's and nearly as high as Spain's.
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that U.K. Justice Secretary Ken Clarke announced that prisoners there would work jobs of 40 hours per week to repay victims and to teach honest skills to the felon.
Benson shot a handful of 30 Under 30 finalists, including Community actor Donald Glover (a.k.a. rapper Childish Gambino), Wall Street bigshot Vlad Khandros, and Ronan Farrow, an activist who is the only biological child of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow.
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