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onetime2: lobbyists would not be my 1st pick of people to become regulators--although they would be intimately familiar with the regulations, their bias makes them bad choices even from a PR standpoint. There are plenty of people who have worked their whole lives in government, people who have experience with policy analysis (rather than advocacy, which lobbyists practice), who are just as familiar with the technical issues, if not more. Hiring people from the industry is fine--it happens all the time in government. People in industry have a great knowledge of the issues that are important. but hiring *lobbyists* seems like an odd choice, when there are scientists, engineers, doctors who have been performing policy analysis for the industry. It's like picking the marketing employee to do regulatory work.
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