Word: lobbyist
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...been pushing the interests of the major banks and brokerages that have poured at least $1.5 million into his campaigns over the years. He has already won passage of a bill that makes it harder for investors to sue fraudulent brokers. (His closest aide, Michael Kinsella, is a former lobbyist for the Securities Industry Association and an active fund raiser.) And he is pushing ahead with the most sweeping bank-deregulation package in history, the repeal of the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act, which forbids mergers between banks and securities firms. D'Amato's reform would throw open the doors...
...greatest challenge. Gingrich's diplomatic offensive began last March in the first of three private sessions with the lobby's leadership. Gingrich did not exactly wave an olive branch, but did manage to sound as if he genuinely wanted to cooperate. John Rother, the AARP's chief lobbyist, summarizes the message this way: "The Speaker told our board, 'I can't revolutionize Medicare over your opposition, and you can't do what you want to do over my opposition. So we need to talk.' He was very tactful." So far the AARP has remained fairly temperate; but that may have...
That left the hapless Bliley to convene a meeting of long-distance lobbyists in the Commerce Committee hearing room on July 13 to convey the grim news. Stunned, the lobbyists began a desperate effort to find someone to whom they could plead their case. "Nobody wants to talk to us," complained a lobbyist for the long-distance coalition early in the week. "Nobody wants to negotiate. Something is fishy here...
...this was no ordinary summer school class. The "students" were members of the Duma, the lower house of the Russian Parliament, and the "teacher" was John L. Zorack. a professional lobbyist...
Though Delay is not bashful about his agenda, the actual tactics may be more subtle, according to Don Fowler, the soft-spoken national chairman of the Democratic National Committee. "You're a lobbyist," he says. "So you call up a subcommittee chairman and ask for an appointment. They take your name and number, but the congressman's assistant tells you to call back a day later. And when you do, they tell you that you haven't been doing your part...