Word: lobbyists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...activists were responding with a media campaign of their own. Their weapon: a clip from a CBS Morning News show featuring a panel of five physicians, Hobbins and Berkowitz among them, tearing into the film. Doubtless Silent Scream has given pro-life forces new momentum, says Ron Fitzsimmons, a lobbyist for the National Abortion Rights Action League, and "it has forced us to respond...
Although it is too early to tell, the cuts "will probably not go through in their original form," said Nan F. Nixon,-Harvard's chief Capitol Hill lobbyist...
Patterson's switch from legislator to lobbyist is an increasingly attractive choice for Congressmen who have lost or given up their seats. Reluctant to sever family and social ties in Washington, lured by bigger money than they could earn back home, they cash in on their Government experience and contacts by becoming advocates for industries, unions, trade groups and special interests of all stripes. Robert McGlotten, president of the American League of Lobbyists, estimates that as many as 200 retired Congressmen represent clients around the Capitol. "The Hill is crawling with them," says Nancy Drabble, director of the consumers' lobby...
...would cost $500,000 to win a fourth , term. He will now divide his time between Colorado and Washington consulting firms, and has been hired by two Colorado water districts to lobby for a project he had endorsed as a member of the House Interior Committee. Says Washington Career Lobbyist Thomas H. Boggs Jr.: "They see people making a lot more money than they do, and they see lobbying as an opportunity. They weigh that against ten to 15 more years in politics." Ex-Congressmen who do not go home are a Washington tradition. Former Senators Birch Bayh and John...
...former Congressmen make effective lobbyists. "A lot of them live off their reputations, figuring the contacts they have will carry the day," says Norman Ouellette, past president of the American League of Lobbyists. "Some have a total distortion of how the business end of things operates." Although former Congressmen are permitted on the floors of the House and Senate, they are painfully aware of the unspoken rule against lobbying there. Sometimes their sense of decorum goes too far: "Many of them are afraid to ask for favors," says Drabble. "They don't want to be heavyhanded, whereas a regular lobbyist...