Word: lobbyist
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...some Republicans who are scarcely enthralled by tax increases might buy them as the price for reducing the size of government. "If he does what he promises, he's going to get a lot of bipartisan support," says Wayne Valis, a former Reagan Administration official who is now a lobbyist...
...slapping a fee on the 7.8 million bbl. of foreign oil that Americans import each day would boost their own prices and help finance new exploration and production. "People don't realize that we've lost more jobs than the auto, steel and textile industries combined," says an industry lobbyist. Falling prices in the oil patch have cost producers 450,000 jobs, or 60% of the work force, over the past decade...
...committee member from Yazoo City, and a Washington lobbyist, Barbour, 45, was conservative enough to serve as a Reagan adviser but smooth enough to attract the support of country-club Republicans anxious to check the influence of the religious right, whose delegates favored former Missouri Governor John Ashcroft or party tactician Spencer Abraham. Rather than flock under ideological banners, however, most of the R.N.C. members avoided ideology. The loudest applause of the day came when Rich Bond, the G.O.P.'s retiring chairman, urged that the 1996 platform drop its strict antiabortion plank...
...first director of the Congressional Budget Office, named Deputy Budget Director, ardently opposes deficit spending and advocates transfer of more government functions to the states. Secretary of Commerce-designate Ronald Brown, 51, who helped Clinton mend fences with black voters as Democratic National Chairman, is a sometime lobbyist with close ties to the business community. The corporate world is also likely to feel comfortable with incoming White House chief of staff Thomas ("Mack") McLarty, 46. A kindergarten classmate and former campaign treasurer for Clinton, he is chief executive of his home state's largest utility, Arkla...
Sometimes art gets it just right. In a particularly delicious scene in The Distinguished Gentleman, the latest Hollywood film about political corruption, a lobbyist asks the movie's protagonist his position on sugar-price supports. The con artist turned Congressman (played by Eddie Murphy) has gone to Washington to commit legalized larceny, but he doesn't have a clue about sugar. Which position would prove most profitable? he wonders. It doesn't matter, Murphy is told. If he favors the program, the sugar producers will fill his campaign coffers; if he opposes it, the candy manufacturers will kick in. Similarly...