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...report's author, Laura MacCleery, characterizes Graham as a consultant and lobbyist for the industry, not an academic interested doing good science...
...votes they needed to kill it. Seven or eight Democrats were worried that if the courts threw out the limits on independent issue ads, lawmakers would be left without the soft money they need to fight back. The tally was expected to be very close--a pro-reform lobbyist was counting 51 votes on his side--and there was even speculation that Dick Cheney might come in to break a tie. But at last, once it was clear the reformers would prevail, wavering Senators climbed aboard. That, many reformers agreed, was a tribute to Daschle, who in the end earned...
...week, but also government programs that many people believe actually do some good. And in trying to restrain "recent explosive growth in discretionary spending" by cutting "unjustified programs, excessive programs, duplicative programs and programs that have completed their mission," he'll find that every program has a congressman, a lobbyist and a constituency who hold it dear...
...within very different time frames. The Chinese have been waiting 50 years for Japan to apologize for its conduct in World War II. Bush is living in a 24-hour news cycle, in which impatience is a virtue. "Bush's tough instincts were right," says a Republican lobbyist, "but they were counterproductive. He should have known that the Chinese don't respond well to bluster." It would have been better, say several Republican foreign policy veterans, to be belligerent in private and play a sweeter song in public. "By saying we won't apologize," says a veteran...
...very savvy lobbyist, someone who is capable of playing the hardest hardball at the highest levels," Koocher said...