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...escape the legal trouble that has sometimes befallen other moneymen. His relationships extend to top Republicans who came to his rescue during the Senate probe of White House coffees in 1996. When G.O.P. investigators found alleged discrepancies in McAuliffe's deposition, sources say, allies of Republican Party chairman Haley Barbour persuaded Senate Republican leaders to take him at his word. It worked. McAuliffe wasn't even called as a witness at the showcase hearings held...
What is the real reason Congress is doing this? Because the legislation is just what banks, credit-card companies, debt consolidators and other financial-services businesses ordered. To get it, they retained high-powered Washington lobbyists, among them Haley Barbour, former chairman of the Republican National Committee, and Lloyd Bentsen, onetime Senator and Treasury Secretary. The price tag for lobbying: more than $5 million...
...taking any chances on this public relations push, and in the interest of covering its bases it has accrued some serious Democratic influence to complement its grip on the GOP. But even amidst Microsoft's acquisition of high-profile pols like former Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour, Reed's appointment is raising a few eyebrows in the capital, says TIME Washington correspondent Viveca Novak. "Microsoft has been forking over huge amounts of money in the last year, hiring lobbyists with great connections who will plead their case," says Novak. "So no one is surprised they're adding people...
That is in essence the argument that influential Washington lobbyist Haley Barbour, a key adviser to the Bush campaign, has made in a series of memos to House and Senate leaders. He has invoked the damage that Congress did to Bob Dole in 1996 by giving Clinton welfare reform to sign. Former Republican chairman Barbour insists that he made it clear on the cover sheets that he was not speaking on behalf of the campaign, but as a longtime congressional strategist put it, "When people get a memo from Haley, they assume it's what Austin wants." Other sources...
...peculiar ways. Measured at short enough durations, space-time loses its apparently smooth, continuous structure, devolving into what Princeton physicist John Wheeler calls "quantum foam." The orderly flow of events may really be as much an illusion as the flickering frames of a movie. And according to independent physicist Barbour's new book, even the apparent sequence of the flickers is illusory...