Even under strict new ethics rules, corporate lobbyists are spending
millions of dollars to influence lawmakers at the 2008 Democratic
National Convention. ANP spoke with Nancy Watzman, head of the Sunlight
Foundation's Party Time Project, who is tracking the "political partying circuit."
Capitol Hill lost yet another Congressman to K Street recently, as one
more elected official rolled down the hill to join a lobbying firm.
Through the story of the latest defector, the American News Project
examines this burgeoning trend, known in DC as the "revolving door."