interests. they do not run my campaign. they will not run my white house. and they will not drown out the voices of the american people when i m president of the united states of america. here he is ten days later, doubling down. i will take power away from the corporate lobbyists who think they can stand in the way of these reforms. i ve done it in illinois. i ve done it in washington. but by his first full day in office, mr. obama had already started backing off, partly because it s really hard to get things done without washington beltway insiders on board. so he unveiled what you might call a lobbyist unleashes plan. if you are a lobbyist entering my administration, you will not be able to work on matters you lobbied on or in the agencies you lobbied during the previous two years. when you leave government, you will not be able to lobby my administration for as long as i am president. and by and large, he has stuck to those rules and also to his promise not to t