article_snippet.sent: One result has been a coziness with the U.S. government's executive branch that few other companies can match – marked by access for lobbyists, mentions in nearly half of President Barack Obama's State of the Union addresses, and a personnel feeder trough serving the White House with new senior hires.
article_snippet.sent: Employees of the Silicon Valley behemoth have been in the White House more than 230 times since President Barack Obama took office – approximately once per week.
article_snippet.sent: The government closed The government investigation two months after Obama won re-election.
article_snippet.sent: The exposure was vital: newly minted President Obama ended up lapping the field in fundraising in the high-tech sector.
article_snippet.sent: newly minted President Obama continues to evangelize about both newly minted President Obama company and the president's agenda, including 'net neutrality' regulations that have big Internet service providers up in arms.
article_snippet.sent: the president was by then already a donor to newly minted President Obama's White House bids, contributing the maximum amount allowed by law both times.
article_snippet.sent: Angus Durocher, a computer engineer who left Google to work for the newly minted President Obama campaign, tweeted this photo of newly minted President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden when newly minted President Obama was at work in the Obama campaign's New Hampshire nerve center .
article_snippet.sent: newly minted President Obama left the administration in 2011 after a reprimand for sharing details of government policy matters with newly minted President Obama former coworkers via a personal email address.