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| Industry Lobbyist Is the Wrong Choice to Head Truck Safety Agency
Quote: Anne Ferro, a trucking industry lobbyist should not be the next head of the key federal agency regulating the trucking industry. President Obama nominated Ferro, President and CEO of the Maryland Motor Truck Association, the state affiliate of the American Trucking Associations (ATA), to head the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA). FMCSA is the agency within the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) responsible for regulating truck safety.
On the day of her hearing, September 23, the New York Times published an editorial calling on the Senate to reject Ms. Ferro's nomination:President Obama made a peculiar choice in June when he nominated Anne Ferro, a major trucking industry lobbyist in Maryland, to lead the agency that oversees truck safety. On its face, Ms. Ferro's selection violates the spirit of Mr. Obama's decision to limit the ability of lobbyists to enter government as high officials and influence policy from within.
The order bars hiring anyone who lobbied an executive-branch agency within the past two years, which technically means federally registered lobbyists. But it is hard to see how naming a trucking industry insider like Ms. Ferro, the president of the Maryland affiliate of the American Trucking Associations, to lead the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration squares with Mr. Obama's promise of "a clean break" from business as usual.
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