Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even if, as many sources predict, the Ethics Committee merely issues a harsh reprimand, Packwood still faces a probe by the Justice Department into whether he used his influence with a lobbyist to get a job for his wife at the time, and whether he altered his diaries before submitting them to the Ethics Committee. The Justice Department is waiting for committee action before proceeding...
Boehner shows no sign of backing down. To the contrary, his Thursday Group is busy forming new coalitions and keeping its old ones intact. And that is no small feat. A Thursday Group lobbyist has been chosen to head the lobbying effort for each of the main provisions in the contract, ranging from tort reform to tax relief. In turn, the chairperson puts together an elaborate coalition of other lobbying groups. The biggest so far is the tax-relief coalition, led by Motley, which has more than 100 members and six task forces to handle policy, communications, vote counting, grass...
...liberalization measure by a vote of 23 to 7. And soon John Wesley Anderson's permit forms in Colorado may be outmoded: this week the Denver legislature plans to consider a lenient limit on concealed guns. "It's a tidal wave," says a delighted Tanya K. Metaksa, head lobbyist for the National Rifle Association...
...Marion ("Sandy") Sanford, a respected and putatively neutral Austin lobbyist, says, "This is not the N.R.A,; this is spontaneous combustion"--fueled by the same dread that has stoked the success of death-penalty campaigns and "Three strikes and you're in." The desire for self-preservation in the face of an increase in random violence and understaffed police forces can express itself, without paradox, in both an assault-weapons ban and in the desire to pack one's own handgun. Says Gary Huttenhoff, a real estate appraiser who has just picked up his laminated wallet-size permit from Sheriff Anderson...
...have seen in recent years, a Congress that becomes too powerful, becomes unwieldy and sometimes unruly. As a consequence, it becomes the target of every interest group and lobbyist who wants something done. We have already experienced the agonies of numerous gridlocks and Senate filibusters. This is no way to run an efficient government. As intended by the founders, a good government needs one person to be responsible for its direction...