Word: lobbyists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...formal deal between PAC's and legislators, just an understanding, but if a dairy association shows up at a candidate's fundraising party with a $5000 check, both the giver and the taker understand that the PAC is not rewarding him for a vote on foreign aid. The lobbyist is quite openly giving the money for a favorable vote on dairy legislation. PACs are throwing around a disproportionate amount of weight in Congress. As long as PACs can give with ease, Congressmen have to play the game and accept the badly needed campaign money...
Arizona Congressman Morris Udall, aleading environmentalist, called it "a delicate fabric of agreements." An Atomic Industrial Forum spokesman acclaimed it "a masterpiece of compromise." Sierra Club Lobbyist Brooks Yeager noted, perhaps more accurately, "There's an awful lot of politics in this bill...
Opponents of the amendment, including lobbyists for beverage interests, claim the measures would create incentive for students to litter and throw away bottles and cans rather than return them, in order to contribute to the scholarship fund. One lobbyist proposed that bumper stickers be printed reading "Smash that bottle, crush that can. Go to college as cheap as you can." These critics would seem to overlook the plight of the average college student, whose most immediate concern is the nickle in his pocket--not some fund far down the road...
...Brien say they expect the Med School audit to be tied up in one package with the $2.2 million still to be negotiated from the School of Public Health audit, but will not comment further on the state of the negotiations. But another official, Harvard's chief federal lobbyist Parker L. Coddington, says that the negotiating process is "making its way towards a quite acceptable conclusion...
...intimates, she told them that Johnson and she had discussed marriage. In that era, a divoriced man would be effectively barred from a political career, but, she said, he had told her that he would get a divorce anyway. He had several job offers as a corporate lobbyist in Washington, and he had, she said, promised to accept one of these. Whether or not this was true, the handful of men and women who were aware . . . agree that this relationship was different from other extramarital affairs in which he was a participant. His conduct at Longlea was striking. One [mutual...