Word: lobbyists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gave Hillary Rodham Clinton her first job, is seen by almost everyone in the White House as a political bumbler who has given his boss poor guidance on a host of matters from the nominations of Zoe Baird and Lani Guinier to the travel-office flap. Even congressional lobbyist Paster, one of the few officials with deep Washington experience, is too closely allied with the liberal House leadership for many House moderates and Senators...
...needed for passage. But halfway into the 15-minute voting period, two Democrats the White House thought it had won over, James Hayes of Alabama and Tim Johnson of South Dakota, voted nay. Instantly, Clinton's margin disappeared. On Capitol Hill a nervous Howard Paster, the top Clinton lobbyist, telephoned White House chief of staff Thomas ("Mack") McLarty in the Oval Office. Mack, he said, "what's happening to our strategy...
...addition, Clinton should snub his lobbyist friends and stick it to them. He's asked for a tax on firms' use of lobbyists, and he should go farther--ensuring public disclosure of lobbyists' activities is a necessity...
...Jersey, who has been an NRA member for 20 years. "And I see no reason that hunters need semiautomatics." The organization's take-no-prisoners lobbying techniques have alienated many old supporters. In New Jersey, an NRA counteroffensive backfired when pro-gun legislators felt cornered by panicky gun lobbyists. Lobbyist Rodger Iverson vowed to raise $100 from every one of the state's gun owners to unseat lawmakers who defied him on the assault-weapons ban. During a session of the state legislature last week, a flustered Iverson rose from the spectators' gallery during a speech supporting the law, directed...
...with France's state-owned Thomson-CSF to outbid U.S. defense giants for the missile and aircraft divisions of LTV last year. Such global connections can be controversial. "The one significant problem for Carlyle is that they've been on the foreign side of controversial transactions," says a Washington lobbyist and rival dealmaker. But Carlyle has the political savvy to play different sides. When the Bush Administration overturned the French deal in order to keep LTV out of the hands of foreign interests, Carlyle teamed with Northrop to acquire LTV's aircraft operations...