Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bill, which finally passed the House in April, came up last week before Senator Abraham Ribicoff's Governmental Affairs Committee?and was promptly consigned to either imminent death or limbo by the lobbyists. Leading the assault against it were such diverse persuaders as William Timmons, the former Capitol Hill liaison man for the Nixon and Ford Administrations, Freelancers Maurice Rosenblatt and William Bonsib, and Diane Rennert of the Association of American Publishers. In a multiple assault, they first threw their weight behind a much milder version of the bill, which was substituted for Ribicoff's stiff version. Despite telephone calls...
There may be more serious abuses in backroom dealings between lobbyist and lawmaker, as past scandals and the Korean bribery affair suggest. Yet on balance the relationship between the governors and the governed, even when the lobbyist does represent one of the nation's many special-interest groups, is often mutually beneficial, and perhaps indispensable, to the fullest workings of democracy. The increasingly knowledgeable and competent Washington lobbyist supplies a practical knowledge vital to the writing of workable laws. He does it at no public expense?and at only the cost of being sure his own interests get the fullest...
...MASSACHUSETTS Department of Public Welfare still awaits a legal opinion as to exactly when the Massachusetts bill passed by the Legislature will go into effect. As it turns out, Weinburg, a full-time lobbyist for MORAL, and her associates have suspected for a year that the Legislature would pass the bill, which Flynn began working on three years ago. But even if Dukakis's veto had been sustained, poor women could have been hurt more by a compromise bill, because then there would have been no court precedents to overrule it. MORAL went to work at the end of last...
...that the issue must come to a vote before the legislative session closes on June 30. A number of representatives continue to waver, however, and the amendment's supporters are wary of calling for a vote until they are sure they have maximum support. Worries League of Women Voters Lobbyist Gloria Craven: "Taking a stand on an issue like this in an election year is tough." Regardless of what happens, Naomi Ross of the National Organization for Women maintains that ERA'S foes "will be very sorry they made us work this hard. Women are in politics in Illinois...
...good Government major knows that if you want to get a bill passed in Congress you have to lobby for it. So when Harvard wanted to draft a bill that would base guidelines for recombinant DNA research on federal, rather than state or local, standards, it hired a lobbyist. Was the effort a success? Does Harvard have ivy? Harvard had the House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment in the palm of its hand. One committee aide said, "This new bill is just the Harvard bill in dressed-up form. They capitulated to Harvard's demands...