{"id":9786,"date":"2009-02-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"baker-takes-funds-case-to-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2009\/baker-takes-funds-case-to-congress.html","title":{"rendered":"Baker takes funds&#8217; case to Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TheAdvocateOne year ago, former U.S. Rep. Richard Baker, R-Baton Rouge, stepped out of Congress to become the chief lobbyist for the trillion-dollar hedge fund industry and walked right into the economic tornado swirling through the nation. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t have too many irons in my fire,&rdquo; Baker recently said. &ldquo;I have too many fires in my irons.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Now head of the Managed Funds Association in Washington, Baker&rsquo;s one-year ban on lobbying former colleagues in Congress ended Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He now expects to be going to Capitol Hill frequently to appear as a witness at congressional hearings. Neither Baker nor the association disclosed his salary, although some media report it to exceed $1 million a year.<\/p>\n<p>  <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.2theadvocate.com\/news\/38844742.html\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TheAdvocateOne year ago, former U.S. Rep. Richard Baker, R-Baton Rouge, stepped out of Congress to become the chief lobbyist for the trillion-dollar hedge fund industry and walked right into the economic tornado swirling through the nation. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t have too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1024,6859,6857,6855,621,6856,6860,6862,6858,5859,3850,6861,236,6863],"class_list":["post-9786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-1-million","tag-baton-rouge","tag-capitol-hill","tag-chief-lobbyist","tag-congress","tag-congressional-hearings","tag-fires","tag-former-colleagues","tag-irons","tag-richard-baker","tag-salary","tag-tornado","tag-trillion","tag-witness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}