Word: bayh
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Senator Evan Bayh, an Indiana Democrat and potential 2008 presidential candidate, emphasized the importance of bringing together the American people across party and ideological lines in a speech at the Harvard Business School (HBS) yesterday afternoon...
...Democrats Club invited Bayh to speak at the school less than a week after fellow presidential hopeful Mark Warner, a former governor of Virginia, spoke to several student groups on the Harvard campus...
...More subtle campaigning is being done by other Senators. In early 2004, the non-partisan Washington magazine National Journal found Indiana's Evan Bayh to be notably more conservative than other Democratic Presidential hopefuls, with a 62 liberal rating, compared with 80 for Feingold, 81 for Hillary Clinton and 86 for John Kerry. But in the last year and half, as he has courted fundraisers around the country for a possible presidential bid, he?s changed his voting pattern a bit. He joined with only 12 of his colleagues (nearly all among the most liberal members of the Senate...
...sell the deal. The Indian embassy signed a $700,000 contract last fall with Barbour, Griffith & Rogers, an outfit led by Robert Blackwill, Bush's ambassador to India from 2001 to 2003. The embassy is also paying $600,000 to Venable, a firm that boasts former Democratic Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana as its point...
...embassy won't say exactly what the lobbyists are doing, and Blackwill and Bayh won't give details about their work. But according to their Foreign Agents Registration Act reports, which must be filed with the U.S. Justice Department, the lobbyists had been buttonholing senior Bush Administration officials since last autumn to pitch the deal. They also arranged meetings for Indian diplomats with key figures on Capitol Hill, such as House International Relations Committee chairman Henry Hyde and Joseph Biden, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Bayh told TIME, "We may be able to open some doors...