Money-go-round.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at windmills - Former aides as tax lobbyists - Brief article

Unfortunately, most of the stories about the revolving door, like the one about Jack Lew, get buried in the business section or other inside pages, so the New York Times deserves congratulations for putting two on its front page recently. "K Street is literally littered with former Baucus staffers," a trade association executive recently told Eric Lipton, the author of the first Times article. Lipton discovered that at least twenty-eight people who had worked as aides to Senator Max Baucus since he became chairman of the Senate Finance Committee in 2001 "have subsequently lobbied on tax issues." And their efforts have not been without effect. They have already "saved their clients millions--in some cases billions--of dollars after Mr. Baucus...