Word: lobbyists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...group's president said he'd retained the lobbyist because "we felt he was the right person to get us in to talk to certain Senators and Congressmen." But the Democratic insider thundered against the suggestion that his "valuable connections" would come in handy...
...controversy grew from there. Antiabortion activists have called her a "mass murderer" and "director of the Arkansas Holocaust." Her reputation has provoked a coalition of national right-to-life groups to challenge her nomination. "We are deadly opposed to her confirmation," says James A. Smith, a lobbyist for the Christian Life Commission. But the White House contends it is ready to fight for this nominee. Says Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala: "She is colorful and plainspoken, and Americans like people who are straightforward." One Republican Senator, Don Nickles of Oklahoma, has come out against...
...Lobbyist for W.R. Grace & Co.; has pinch-hit for Patrick Buchanan as co- host of CNN's Crossfire...
...Moynihan. But in that meeting Bentsen was little more than a weary husk, hollowed out by frantic European junketing. Besides, there is the underlying suspicion that Bentsen is really more in sympathy with Moynihan than with his Administration. The question remained, to use the words of a powerful lobbyist, "Can the quirky Moynihan put together a coalition?" If he does not, the Senate leadership may try to brush him aside. A daunting task, but the Senator lost a little luster last week with the disclosure that he had scheduled, then canceled, a $5,000-a-person fund raiser for lobbyists...
...infused a sense of quiet pride in G.O.P. elders, who saw the Administration's breakdown as a vindication of Republican competence. More than that, Clinton's drafting of a former Republican operative, Gergen, to help bail out the White House image machinery was delicious irony. Joked one Republican lobbyist: "I'm telling a lot of my Democratic friends that if they need to get to Gergen, I'll be glad to help them...