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...fully understand the workings of Washington, it doesn't always pay to stick close to Capitol Hill. It was in a tiny church in suburban South Carolina that senior correspondent Jeff Birnbaum, who reported and wrote this week's cover story on Ralph Reed, fully realized just how Reed's Christian Coalition has become a force to be reckoned with in the U.S. Congress and the Republican Party. "This was a little church in the sticks," says Jeff. "But it had a satellite dish so that it could receive transmissions of Reed's training show, Christian Coalition Live...
...necessity, political reporting focuses largely on politicians, but special interests and pressure groups are the unseen hands in the lawmaking and electoral process. Shedding light on how they work is a special interest for Jeff, a longtime Washington correspondent who came to join the staff of Time this year from the Wall Street Journal...
...graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Jeff is the father of two and the author of two books-Showdown at Gucci Gulch (co-written with Alan Murray) and The Lobbyists-that are required reading for anyone hoping to understand how Washington operates. His third book, Madhouse, about the workings of the Clinton White House, arrives next year...
Earlier this year, Jeff gave the readers of TIME's U.S. edition a look at the Thursday Group, a circle of industry lobbyists and conservative groups convened by Republican Congressmen to help pass the Republican Contract with America-with significant potential rewards for the interests the members represented. Time's Washington bureau chief, Dan Goodgame, says that story is a perfect demonstration of Jeff's exceptional gifts: "Who pushes for a law, who blocks it, who gets hurt, whose interests are at stake-that's what Jeff looks...
Though influence groups are a time-honored American institution, "in recent years they have become far more sophisticated in the means they use," notes Jeff, citing the ever widening use of electronic mail and the Internet by special-interest groups and U.S. presidential candidates to get their messages across. That's why no understanding of electoral politics is complete without a look at that South Carolina church that the Christian Coalition has brought into its fold by way of high technology. As Jeff will tell you, sometimes the only way to get to the heart of Washington is to take...