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...researchers still remain optimistic about other funding opportunities. Lensch, who advocates on behalf of stem cell researchers on Beacon and Capitol Hill, said he anticipated future relaxation of current restrictions on federal support for embryonic stem cell research...
...Congress or their staff would ever change their position on an issue based on anything other than their constituents' interests or their own deeply held views. My lobbying efforts were focused on presenting my clients' causes in a way which was consistent with the philosophy of my friends on Capitol Hill. That's why I had such a record of success--not because anyone received gifts or traveled with me. As for the travel, like virtually every lobbyist in modern times, I've traveled with members of Congress and staff. Lobbyists will travel with a member or staff because their...
...that other lobbyists didn't do and aren't doing today. The focus fell on me because the media built me up as a Washington powerbroker. Reading the press, it almost seems as if I invented political contributions by lobbyists, travel with Congressmen, the hiring of former Capitol Hill staffers, etc., etc. It's almost comical how my every action and thought have been scandalized...
...Republicans are so eager to change the storyline that House Speaker Dennis Hastert got a standing ovation when he announced, at a private meeting with House Republicans in the Capitol basement last week, that he was ready to sound a retreat on changes in House ethics rules that he engineered last December. Democrats on the House ethics committee, which is the only one where they hold as many seats as Republicans, had shut it down to protest a rule change that required the support of a majority of committee members before any investigation could proceed. They charged that...
...time of such political polarization, the filibuster is more necessary than ever. Though Republicans control the White House and the Capitol, our country is strikingly torn on the most glaring political issues currently confronting legislators. The filibuster is what keeps the voices of half the country in the political limelight. Sen. John W. Warner, R-Va. put it best when he told the New York Times “I just look at this institution as really the last bastion of protecting the rights of the minority, and we should be very careful before we try and make any changes...