Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tulsa's Congressman Jim Jones was one of a couple dozen invited to the White House last week by Jimmy Carter, No. 1 White House lobbyist. Eat before I go, thought Jones, whose three other breakfasts down there had consisted of two nickel-size biscuits and orange juice. He did. In his office on Capitol Hill...
...arguments are often strengthened by the testimony of cancer victims who claim they have been helped by the substance. In Texas, explains anti-Laetrile Lobbyist Ace Pickens, "legislators said, 'Oh hell, if it doesn't do them any harm and if it gives them any hope, why not let them have it?' " Otherwise, says Arizona State Representative Herb Everett, "we are making criminals out of those who want to use Laetrile." Most potent of all has been the plea that people who are dying from cancer should be free to try even worthless cures. The New York...
Nonetheless, the lobbyists frequently get measurable results. Dave Caney, a lawyer-architect and lobbyist for the American Institute of Architects, initially spent a frustrating week trying to talk with staffers at the Federal Energy Administration. His mission: to convince them that outside experts should do "energy audits" of schools and hospitals to see what forms of insulation and heating devices would make them more energy efficient. (Under the plan, $900 million would be granted to the states to carry out such programs.) Caney tried reaching Democratic staffers on the House energy and power subcommittee, but to no avail; they were...
Multiple Pressure. The lobbyists concentrate hardest on "swing" votes. Perhaps the most heavily lobbied individual in the House last week was Democrat Marty Russo of Illinois. His vote in the energy and power subcommittee was crucial to deregulation of natural gas prices. The industry wants it; the Administration does not, at least for the foreseeable future. In drumfire order, Russo was lobbied by Carter, Energy Chief James Schlesinger, Dingell, O'Neill, White House Lobbyist Jim Free, FEA Administrator John O'Leary and industry lawyers. The Consumer Federation's Ellen Berman spent seven hours with Russo...
...frank to tell you. I'm worn out." When his turn to vote finally came, he hesitated, then voted for continued regulation. But not enough of his colleagues went along. By a vote of 12 to 10, the subcommittee agreed to end control of gas prices. Lobbyist Berman had no time to mourn her loss. She was already on her way to the next big test, the House Commerce Committee, adding up pros, antis and swings along...