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JACK ABRAMOFF, disgraced Washington lobbyist, talking to a Jewish publication about his role in the Capitol Hill lobby scandal...
...report, the statistic also means that non-citizens are engaged in sensitive defense-related research. The auditors told Commerce and State Department officials to up their efforts “to ensure that universities understand when to apply export controls.” Harvard’s chief lobbyist responded favorably to the report’s recommendations. “The commission is striking an appropriate bound between regulation and allowing the rapid exchange of information that leads to innovation,” said the senior director of federal and state relations, Kevin Casey, in a phone interview. According...
...will win the coming battle between reformers and revanchists? The market is betting against reform. Demand for anyone with access to powerful Democrats on the Hill is soaring. Lobbyists who couldn't get a meeting are suddenly a hot commodity. "I've gotten a lot of calls from headhunters in the last two months," says Florence Prioleau, a lobbyist who has maintained close ties with her former boss, New York's Charles Rangel, incoming chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. Pelosi's former chief of staff, George Crawford, has just been hired by Amgen, a biotech company, to represent...
...members of Congress lobbying us," says the Livingston Group's Moffett. Moffett says he bumped into a powerful Senator last spring. They sat on a bench overlooking the city and talked about Moffett's clients. After a few minutes, Moffett gave the Senator his card. By the time the lobbyist got back to his office, the Senator's campaign staff had sent him an invitation to a $1,000-a-plate fund raiser. "When you're holding the chum," says Flake, the Arizona Representative seeking reform, "you can't complain about the sharks...
...hardly swing a cat by the tail in that town without hitting a pharmaceutical lobbyist,” Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, told the Associated Press last year...