The tendency of
corporate executives appointed to high positions in
government service to regard Congressional oversight as
interference with their perogatives, and hence to resist it.
"I call this 'tycoonitis,'" House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) said: "People who come from the top of the
corporate ladder" - Agency for International Development
Administrator Randall Tobias came from Eli Lilly - "who consider congressional suggestions, requests for information and
participation in decision-making as intruding on their turf." Later, Tobias was busted using an escort service.