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...often do Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader and the liberal lobbying group Common Cause find themselves on the same side of an issue with the major oil companies, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the leadership of the Republican Party. But last week just such a formidable, if unlikely coalition sank the Energy Transportation Security Act of 1977, better known as the cargo preference bill. In a confused and acrimonious vote, the House of Representatives defeated the bill, 257 to 165. In so doing, the legislators rejected both Jimmy Carter's endorsement of the measure and a campaign...
Thus it is doubtful that a House-Senate conference committee would sustain the Senate position supporting deregulation. What is more, Jimmy Carter has vowed to veto such a bill, and neither chamber would have the votes to override him. Nonetheless, the upshot of the Senate vote is likely to be that while controls will remain, there will be compromises that will send the price of natural gas substantially higher than Carter had wanted-perhaps as high as $2.25 per m.c.f. when a bill is finally passed...
Such familiar energy lobbyists as the American Petroleum Institute, the Independent Petroleum Association of America and the A.G.A., which represents 33 of the nation's 120 interstate pipeline companies as well as 300 local gas firms, were active, of course. But so were the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, speaking for 70,000 member businesses, and the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, which includes 118 farm and marketing co-ops and 3.5 million farmers. These groups had one overriding concern: they did not want a repetition of last winter's drastic shortage of natural...
Some of the most effective lobbying was done from a distance. "I never go to Capitol Hill," said Chris Farrand, director of energy and environment for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. "I generate three or four calls to a Senator. He'll take those calls while three or four lobbyists are waiting outside his office." Senators were phoned by major employers from their home states, warning of imminent layoffs and plant closings if an adequate gas supply was not assured. Workers and shareholders were also urged to write or wire their Senators; the argument was made that even though...
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