Elections Matter, White House Visitor Edition

So the White House will now release its visitor logs:

The first names posted to the White House Web site included health industry executives who met with the Obama administration to discuss his plan to overhaul health care.

The visitors, whose names were released in July, included Jeffrey Kindler, chairman and chief executive officer of New York-based Pfizer Inc., the world’s biggest drugmaker; New Brunswick, New Jersey-based Johnson & Johnson’s chairman and CEO William Weldon; and Stephen Hemsley, CEO and president of Minnetonka, Minnesota-based UnitedHealth Group Inc., the largest U.S. insurer by sales.

Other visitors included former Representative Billy Tauzin, now president of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America; Rich Umbdenstock, president of the American Hospital Association; and Karen Ignagni, president and CEO of America’s Health Insurance Plans.

They are also releasing the Bush logs.

Gee, that was easy, why wasn’t this done 6 months ago? Why did they fight it until now?

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