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...banded together to form lobbying groups and begun to press their case. Their list of demands is growing both in size and in the amount of attention it is attracting in Congress. In the past year lawmakers have begun to make personal pilgrimages to talk to CEOs outside the Beltway...
Common sense would dictate that the burgeoning high-tech industry of northern Virginia and southern Maryland should take the lead in lobbying the nation's capital on behalf of technology interests. Not so. Executives who live just outside the Washington Beltway had to be dragged into the political fray by Charles Manatt, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee and now U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic. Manatt struggled for years to organize the executives but didn't get it done until a conference of business leaders from the Potomac River region last year led to a breakthrough...
...have to fly across the continent to pick up their campaign-finance checks. The CapNet political-action committee has raised $140,000 so far and by Election Day hopes to reach $200,000. Supplemented by personal donations from stock-rich executives, it's already a force inside the Beltway...
There were two reasons Max Nevis, like most other Americans who live beyond the Beltway, could not bring himself to watch much of the Republican wingding staged in his very own South Philadelphia neighborhood last week. No. 1, he cares too much about serious political discourse to waste time on scripted promises and flying brickbats. No. 2, he was busy handicapping the campaign for the bookmaking operation he runs out of his modest little row house...
...Most Convincing Impression of a Beltway Outsider (WP) "When I look back at Washington, I scratch my head and ask what the hell are they doing back there." -Dick Cheney, on life in the private sector...