Word: lobbyists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many lobbyists contend, Congress will lack the stomach to attempt true reform unless a genuine crisis is perceived. Some see the huge deficit as that crisis and the need for Government revenue as a spur to help solve the problem. Contends Tax Lobbyist Charls Walker, a former Treasury official: "Fundamental tax reform can only be passed as part of a major deficit-reduction package. A revenue-neutral plan has no chance." That view could prove too gloomy, but if tax reform is to have a chance, the President will soon have to take the lead-and the heat...
...proposal to move water pollution programs from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, where mayors were pleased with its administration, to the Interior Department, where its urban orientation might be lost. The President called Mayor Daley, Chicago's powerful political leader, and asked him to tell me, the lobbyist for the nation's larger cities, to back off. The mayor refused the President's request. Again, in January 1979, when President Carter and his staff were angered at my public analysis and criticism of the deep cuts in urban programs proposed in the 1980 budget, the executive committee...
...Dallas Convention Center and millions of television viewers? Desperate to add spice to their celebration of the Administration's first term, G.O.P. strategists briefly considered pumping up their mild ideological divisions into full-fledged floor battles. But the idea was eventually rejected as hokey. Says Washington Lobbyist William Timmons, who has played a major role in every G.O.P. Convention since 1968: "We will have a clean, crisply paced, well-managed demonstration of Republican unity... There will be some powerful messages, well presented. But whether anyone will listen-well, we have to hold our audience somehow...
...Yale, and William and Mary. But the privately run Louisiana Lottery, which flourished after the Civil War and depended on nationwide sales, was notoriously corrupt. To stop misuse, Congress in 1895 banned interstate commerce by lottery operators. Today lotteries still draw fire on moral grounds. Declares Jack Wyman, a lobbyist for the Christian Civic League of Maine: "Government financing by gambling encourages citizens to indulge their weaknesses...
...jackpots and compete with neighboring Massachusetts, the states of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont are even considering combining their lotteries into a more tantalizing tristate pool. Last week lottery supporters in California gave state authorities the required petitions to put a lottery proposal to a November vote. In Florida, Lobbyist Jay Kashuk is leading a petition drive to repeal a state ban on lotteries...