Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million contract to construct a steam plant for the Navy at the Portsmouth, Va., shipyard. When Dravo discovered its design would not work as promised, it had to redesign the plant. By August of last year, the company faced increased costs of almost $25 million. Dravo's Washington Lobbyist Martin Hamberger did not waste time trying to persuade unsympathetic Navy brass to renegotiate. Instead he went to Specter, asking for a bailout. The Senator received $9,500 from Dravo's political-action committee for his 1986 re-election campaign. Last September Hamberger gave Specter a draft of what he wanted...
Wright, who has a mixed voting record on contra aid, was receptive when visited last month by the Administration's new lobbyist on the issue, Tom Loeffler, a former Texas Republican Congressman. The two Texas pols, longtime friends despite their partisan differences, produced a plan that in effect offered the Sandinistas a stark choice: join in serious negotiations now or face a possible new infusion of U.S. military aid to the contras...
...most of the past six years, being a business lobbyist in Washington has been a cushy assignment. In the laissez-faire atmosphere created by the Reagan Administration, Congress seemed unusually reluctant to put new legislative shackles on America's corporations. But now that the Democrats have regained control of the Senate and the White House's power has been weakened by Iranscam, business finds itself on the defensive. Corporate lobbyists are fighting a bevy of labor-supported bills that might be beneficial to workers but would impose new costs and burdens on corporations. Says Dirk Van Dongen, president...
Many executives oppose the commissioner's involvement in rate setting. But John Hancock Lobbyist Barbara Burgess supports Hiam. Says she: "Current rates discriminate against the individual...
...been linked to the insider-trading scandals. Presidential candidates are peeking through drawn curtains to make sure that reporters are not staking out their private lives. A congressional witness, deeply involved in the Reagan Administration's secret foreign policy, is huddling with his lawyers before facing inquisitors. A Washington lobbyist who once breakfasted regularly in the White House mess is brooding over his investigation by an independent counsel. In Quantico, Va., the Marines are preparing to court-martial one of their own. In Palm Springs, Calif., a husband-and-wife televangelist team, once the adored cynosures of 500,000 faithful...