Word: bill
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...times I've ever seen my boss really mad is when those lobbyists came to try to get out of the tax bill," says the aide to a prominent Senate leader...
Representatives from higher education organizations fought hard to insert provisions which would protect their members. The two largest organizations, the American Council on Education (ACE), an umbrella group of almost all colleges and universities in the nation, and the AAU, lobbied especially hard, but to no avail--The bill passed...
Some Hill watchers believe the tax bill was the turning point in changing Congressional and public perceptions that are now beginning to look upon higher education as a special interest group...
...Their attempts to get exemptions when all the other special interests had to make sacrifices pissed off a lot of Congressmen," said a Senate aide close to the bill's formulators...
...education lobby put a lot of pressure on us," the aide says. "If Senators didn't look at higher education as a special interest group before [the bill], they sure as hell did afterwards...