Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have publicly jumped on the managed- competition bandwagon. Under fire from the White House for price gouging, the drugmakers last week asked the Justice Department to grant an exemption from antitrust prosecution so that they can negotiate voluntary price restraints. "The train is leaving the station," said a drug lobbyist. "We're just trying to slow the train down long enough . . . to get on board...
Until now, Hillary has not submerged herself in the day-to-day work of the . task force but has been briefed regularly by Magaziner. For the most part, she has played congressional lobbyist, paying calls on members and listening for ideas while a trio of aides take copious notes. Lawmakers report that the First Lady, for all her reputed aloofness, knows the right moves. When Illinois Democrat Dan Rostenkowski suggested to Hillary that her husband was sending her into a "huge hellfire" on health care, she adroitly replied, "You know, Mr. Chairman, Chicago looks a lot better as a result...
...Trade Representative, Kantor had little experience in the acronymic arcana of GATT and NAFTA and other trade agreements. Yet he has proved a remarkably quick study, in the manner of a crack litigator mastering a complex brief. He is, by training and nature, an aggressive lawyer and lobbyist. Kantor sees himself not as a peacemaker but as a warrior who, as he puts it, "hates to lose." (Those who beat him at tennis have learned to watch out for his flying racquet.) He has represented migrant farmworkers and lobbied on behalf of giant oil and aerospace companies. Now, he says...
Kantor's detractors are worried that he and Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, another lawyer-lobbyist and political operator, are using trade and industrial policy to buy business and labor support for Clinton's re-election. His admirers, however, say that Kantor's political skills are essential to win approval for Clinton's complex trade policy in Congress. Those skills, they say, were proved when Kantor took charge as chairman of Clinton's campaign during the Gennifer Flowers scandal and helped steady and revive both the candidate and his youthful staff. Kantor's role was diminished during the general election, though...
...commended the President but also indicated that the Fed would cooperate by holding down interest rates to soften the bite of higher taxes. But the first barrage of phone calls to Congress was highly negative, and there is something in the plan to offend almost every interest employing a lobbyist with an in at a particular congressional committee. Budget Director Leon Panetta told the Washington Post that chances of congressional passage are only fifty-fifty. (See cover stories, beginning on page...