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Last week, on the day before the House approved a bill to keep better track of lobbyists, R.N.C. chairman Haley Barbour mailed fund-raising letters to many of the lobbyists the bill is supposed to rein in. Even in a city inured to the crass trading of favors for campaign cash, the Barbour letter, signed simply "Haley," is extraordinarily blatant. It opens, "Let me get right to the point," and lays out in detail the special access money can buy, ranging from photographs with the Republican presidential contenders to cocktails in a private skybox at the G.O.P. convention...
...R.N.C. is prepared to pamper supporters who want to work the phones themselves. It has scheduled two "phone days" in the tony Hay-Adams Hotel across from the White House. Of this offer and others in the Barbour letter, R.N.C. spokeswoman Mary Crawford says, "That's just sort of the way it's done." That may be exactly why the Republicans of Newt's revolution are unlikely soon to rewrite the laws governing checkbook politics...
...push Powell further. On Wednesday, Nov. 1, Duberstein was calling old associates of Powell's to make sure they could drop their lives on short notice and come to Washington to help him run. The next day, Powell met at his office in Alexandria with Republican Party chairman Haley Barbour, who talked favorably about a candidacy. But there were other voices just as determined to be heard. A group of conservatives called a press conference to blast Powell and warn him against running. Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed had done the same, via letter...
...Some conservatives were quietly pleased last week when Powell, who had described himself as firmly pro-choice in September, took a more circumspect line. The change in tone is one reason why Christian Coalition executive director Ralph Reed, rather than denouncing Powell, plans to press Gingrich, G.O.P. chairman Haley Barbour and other Republican leaders into coaxing Powell farther to the right. That may not be easy. With a touch of defiance, Powell-the-pol argued last week that extremism loses elections. "Find your revolutionary who gets more than 8% or 9% of the vote," he told reporters...
...little choice but to veto fiscal 1996 appropriations bills -- an action that could (in theory) bring the federal government to a grinding halt. Citing a Congressional Budget Office analysis that found Clinton's plan would lead to a $209 billion deficit in the 10th year, Republican chairman Haley Barbour retorted: "Clinton doesn't have a 10-year plan to balance the budget.Republicans cannot compromise with a phantom plan...