Takeouts: Capitol Hill as training ground for top lobby jobs, START treaty’s journey through congress

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FINANCIAL TAKEOUT: What’s the difference between a Washington Lobbyist and a former congressional aide? It sounds like the setup to a bad joke, but in fact, Louise Story, The New York Times Wall Street and finance reporter, says that the question is actually very valid and becoming very hard to answer.

WASHINGTON TAKEOUT: With the nuclear summit winding down, The Takeaway’s Washington correspondent, Todd Zwillich, looks at the future of the START treaty, which President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed last week. The treaty aims to significantly decrease the amount of nuclear weapons between the two countries, but it looks like it’s going to be a long and slow journey for START treaty in Congress.

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