美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-01-26

 Millions of Americans of course watched president Obama lay out his vision for the country yesterday. Keep them honest though, even as he spoke¹, another big Washington power player was already gearing up to advance its agenda, not lawmakers, not administrators², not judges or journalists, lobbyists, an army of influenced paddlers and access seekers and opinion shapers are gearing up for a battle, to block bills or change them, insert loopholes or widen them. We're talking about Republicans, Democrats³, you name it. Now you might like some of what they're doing, but chances are you won't be crazy about this.

A Congresswoman who just got reelected, but she to leave, is leaving already, taking what she learned in Congress to get paid big dollars, leaving the people who elected her, basically high and dry.

Drew Griffin tonight is "Keeping them honest".

She maybe the perfect example of what Washington critics called the revolving⁴ door symdrome.

"Congresswoman? Congresswoman Emerson, Drew Griffin with CNN."

Which could explain why all we got from Congresswoman Joe Ann Emerson was the slam-door treatment. The southeast Missouri Republican is quitting Congress. Not because she lost, in fact she just won her last election to her tenth term by a landslide⁵. She is quitting, because she landed a job back in what you might call the real family business. The politics of influencing Congress.

Follow the lineage, in the 17th, Joe Ann Emerson, a Washington D.C native, married a lobbyist named Bill Emerson. When the lobbyist Bill Emerson went on to become Congress man from Missouri, Joe Ann went on to become a lobbyist for the restauranr industry. When he died of cancer in 1996, she took his seat and she served nine terms since then. And while the combined Emersons were spending 32 years in the Congress, they were rasing two daughters. Both of whom who are now registered lobbyists. Now Congresswoman Emerson goes back to a trade association, directing a team of lobbyists.

"It's the personification of the revolving door."

Kathy Kyle with the Sunlight Foundation says it's a revolving door of lobbyists and politicians and staff members and big pay off jobs that eroded⁶ Americans' faith in a system, that seems to be driven by special interst access and money.

"What people do see is that there is a network of individuals who don't necessarily have the public interest at heart, they have special interests at heart, and those, when people have the impression that those special interests are dominating Washington and the way things work here. It reduces people's faith in their government, and it probably should."

Technically⁷ speaking, Joe Ann Emerson is not becoming a lobbyist, at least not yet. She's named the new CEO of the National Rural Electric Cooperated Association. She will direct a group that has a staff of lobbyists that's spent 3.5 million dollars handing out campaign contributions in the last election. And has spent many more millions lobbying Congress, her predecessor⁸ was paid 1.6 million dollars a year, that predecessor, the former Congressman⁹ himself and a registered lobbyist. Glenn.

1 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

2 administrators   

n.管理者( administrator的名词复数 )；有管理（或行政）才能的人；（由遗嘱检验法庭指定的）遗产管理人；奉派暂管主教教区的牧师

参考例句：

• He had administrators under him but took the crucial decisions himself. 他手下有管理人员，但重要的决策仍由他自己来做。 来自辞典例句
• Administrators have their own methods of social intercourse. 办行政的人有他们的社交方式。 来自汉英文学 - 围城

3 democrats   

n.民主主义者，民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
• The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 revolving   

adj.旋转的，轮转式的；循环的v.（使）旋转( revolve的现在分词 )；细想

参考例句：

• The theatre has a revolving stage. 剧院有一个旋转舞台。
• The company became a revolving-door workplace. 这家公司成了工作的中转站。

5 landslide   

n.(竞选中)压倒多数的选票；一面倒的胜利

参考例句：

• Our candidate is predicated to win by a landslide.我们的候选人被预言将以绝对优势取胜。
• An electoral landslide put the Labour Party into power in 1945.1945年工党以压倒多数的胜利当选执政。

6 eroded   

adj. 被侵蚀的，有蚀痕的 动词erode的过去式和过去分词形式

参考例句：

• The cliff face has been steadily eroded by the sea. 峭壁表面逐渐被海水侵蚀。
• The stream eroded a channel in the solid rock. 小溪在硬石中侵蚀成一条水道。

7 technically   

adv.专门地，技术上地

参考例句：

• Technically it is the most advanced equipment ever.从技术上说，这是最先进的设备。
• The tomato is technically a fruit,although it is eaten as a vegetable.严格地说，西红柿是一种水果，尽管它是当作蔬菜吃的。

8 predecessor   

n.前辈，前任

参考例句：

• It will share the fate of its predecessor.它将遭受与前者同样的命运。
• The new ambassador is more mature than his predecessor.新大使比他的前任更成熟一些。

9 Congressman   

n.（美）国会议员

参考例句：

• He related several anecdotes about his first years as a congressman.他讲述自己初任议员那几年的几则轶事。
• The congressman is meditating a reply to his critics.这位国会议员正在考虑给他的批评者一个答复。