Word: lobbyists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...register by mail, at a variety of public buildings and bureaus, and when applying for a driver's permit. But the 268-to-153 vote fell well short of the two-thirds majority needed to override an all but certain presidential veto. "Motor-voter," said top White House lobbyist Nick Calio, "is dead in the driveway...
Wofford, born April 1926, began his life in politics at 16, when he was a Congressional lobbyist...
Such dealings with government taught Perot something else: When you want to get something done, hire a high-priced lobbyist. Preferably one who held a high government office. Indeed, that was how Perot pushed his school reform package through the Texas legislature. According to Thomas Toch's In the Name of Excellence, Perot brought in one of the state's most powerful lawyers, along with three of the most expensive lobbyists in Austin, known around the capital as "the $100,000 boys." Two of them were former assistants to the speaker of the Texas House of Representatives...
ROSS PEROT BASES HIS CRUSADE for the presidency on being an outsider, a political ingenue who wouldn't know a Gucci-shoed lobbyist if he tripped over one. This reformer would have the public believe he has nothing in common with the fools in Washington. He supports a ban on "these guys with their alligator shoes," who swarm over the halls of Congress trying to open loopholes large enough to drive their leased Jaguars through...
...liability, and White House officials fear that Clinton will eagerly exploit the issue in the fall. Last week White House counsel C. Boyden Gray and other senior officials were working behind the scenes to get Black and Lake to break away from their lobbying firms. "The job of a lobbyist is to influence the government," said a senior official. "It is not appropriate to have a substantial position in the campaign and to stay connected with ((clients)) who are trying to influence the government...