Word: lobbyists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senator Richard Stone of Florida (see box). They feel Stone is too aligned with the current Administration, for which he has undertaken several diplomatic missions in Central America, and with the deposed right-wing dictatorship of Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia in Guatemala, for which he served as a paid lobbyist. The White House held up the appointment for a day while aides assessed Stone's chances for confirmation by the Senate. Many Democrats felt the issue was irrelevant. "Rather than an envoy, we should have a good policy," said Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont. "It's like a used...
Other opponents of nuclear power regarded the ruling as a potent new weapon. "The decision is another nail in the coffin of nuclear power," declared Michael Paparian, a lobbyist for the Sierra Club, an environmental organization. "The ruling," said Jerry Brown, who was Governor of California when the moratorium was passed, "further strengthens the power of the states to regulate their own economic destiny...
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...plan leaves room for bargaining, should ensure that his budget will not be rejected out of hand, as was the dead-on-arrival plan he delivered to Congress last February. "The debate this year is going to be within the framework presented by the President," says his top lobbyist, Kenneth Duberstein. Hill leaders agree. But because Reagan's program includes so many unpalatable specifics, another grueling yearlong struggle over spending and taxes is surely in store. "The budget fight will be bloody and partisan," predicts Republican Congressman Dick Cheney of Wyoming...
...problems is both a strength and a weakness. Baker, 52, readily concedes that he is not expert on most domestic programs and policy issues and relies heavily on his top aide, Richard Darman, for help on such matters. He also relies on the White House's congressional lobbyist, Kenneth Duberstein, to handle the details of legislative strategy...