The Obama administration has nominated Michael Huerta as deputy administrator at the Federal Aviation Administration. Huerta is both a former lobbyist and transportation industry advocate.

But since Huerta hasn't officially lobbied since 2001, he falls within the new White House rules which bar candidates for executive branch posts who have registered to lobby within the past two years in the policy area for which they had lobbied. (Huerta also served on Obama's transition team for the U.S. Department of Transportation.)

Huerta is currently chairman of the board of directors of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America, an advocacy group which fosters "the use of advanced technologies in surface transportation systems." Under the Obama rules, that's also legal, since industry advocates are not barred from employment. They just can't have been recently registered federal lobbyists.

Until April 2009, Huerta was group president of the Transportation Solutions Group of Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. He also served as a managing director with the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the Olympic Winter Games of 2002.