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WASHINGTON: Lobbyist Peter Knight knows that sometimes the best way to get a politician's attention is by waving a checkbook. As Al Gore's money man, in 1996 he set the record for a one-night fund-raiser: $12.5 million...
...mastermind behind the biggest heist of the year--the delivery of a $50 billion tax break for tobacco companies? Now a prime suspect has emerged: former Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour. Two Republican Party officials told Time last week that Barbour, now a millionaire tobacco lobbyist, had gone to House Speaker Newt Gingrich and majority leader Trent Lott and persuaded them to slip a giant gift to his clients into the must-pass balanced-budget agreement just minutes before it was inked. For weeks it looked as if the two g.o.p. leaders had pulled off a classic fix: looting...
MICHAEL WEISSKOPF has rigorously documented campaign fund raising in more than 30 stories since he joined TIME in January. His determination to follow the money has led him to some interesting Beltway venues--including the office of a chief Washington lobbyist this week. In a TIME exclusive, Weisskopf reveals the identity of the man who acted as a go-between for Democratic fund raiser Johnny Chung and former Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary. Such tenacity has earned him a George Polk Award for his reporting on Congress. "Campaign fund raising may seem a strange Washington game," says Weisskopf...
...Nixon, director of federal relations and the University's main lobbyist, said institutions capitalized on the Clinton Administration's spotlight on education to pass the bill. Long-time ally of the University, Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan (D-N.Y.) spearheaded efforts to push through the provision...
...gatherers at mealtime, with full carry-out privileges (Chinese, pizza) and access to expense-account restaurants that had their parents' credit card on file. I was so depressed by the thought of kids' eating out of a carton, like Woody Allen, or high off the hog, like a porky lobbyist, that I insisted that mine eat at home, even when I was heating up Stouffer...