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...wait five months--not a good sign. Two weeks ago, EPA floated a proposal that would mandate dredging but scale down the scope of the work. For GE, which met with Whitman sometime before that, the plan was a valentine. "GE thought it had a deal," says an industry lobbyist...
Soler is a little-known lobbyist who has put together a brilliant coalition in Congress in favor of the research. Working with Daniel Perry, executive director of the Alliance for Aging Research, Soler organized 38 national patient groups into his coalition. Soler and Perry routinely corner politicians with polls showing that majorities of Catholics and other churchgoers favor embryonic stem-cell research. They have mobilized patients and their families to press their members of Congress, and some believe that they have enough votes to override a veto on a potential research bill...
...Bush recount effort in Florida, is a director, and chairman Steve Letbetter was a top Bush fund raiser.) Republican sources tell TIME that Scott Reed, the longtime G.O.P. activist who heads A.T.A., hopes to raise $25 million to keep the ads running. Bush outside adviser Ed Gillespie, an Enron lobbyist, is raising a separate $500,000 war chest for ads attacking price caps...
...defeated in the 1992 presidential election, Card was put in charge of helping to transition the new Clinton administration into the White House. After deciding not to run for public office, he then used his experience in the transportation department to land a lucrative position as a top lobbyist for the automobile industry...
...White's office has been working at a rapid clip on the pardons investigation as well as the probe of New Jersey Sen. Robert Torricelli. In the Marc Rich portion of the pardons inquiry, former White House counsel and Rich lobbyist Jack Quinn testified before the grand jury a total of four times - and none of the occasions were pleasant. Two Texans who claim they were defrauded by Roger Clinton, the former president's brother, are scheduled to testify in June. In the Torricelli probe, prosecutors are trying to amass enough physical and other evidence to overcome the fact that...