How often do former members of Congress lobby? Not as often as you might think. – The Washington Post

“K Street woos Mary Landrieu,” Politico’s headline reads. K Street, as you probably know, is the bucolic lane in Washington, DC that is home (at least symbolically) to most of the city’s lobbying firms. And Mary Landrieu, as you also probably know, is the current-but-not-for-long Demcoratic senator from Louisiana who lost her reelection bid last weekend. (If you don’t know what “woos” means, here you go. Now you can read the whole sentence!)

For readers, probably to a person, the response to the headline is: of course. Of course a former member of Congress is going to become a lobbyist. That’s what always happens. Which is where your friends at The Fix come in. We decided to try to figure out just how true that is.

via How often do former members of Congress lobby? Not as often as you might think. – The Washington Post.