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...Congress was embroiled in the crazy closing hours of the budget deal. So many members showed up to voice their grief and anger that House minority leader Dick Gephardt had time only to read their names. "It speaks volumes about how much progress we've made," says Winnie Stachelberg, lobbyist for the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's biggest gay-rights group. "Yet Matthew's death shows how much farther we have...
...issues. Indeed, without the work of the council, we would probably not be enjoying extended shuttle service and longer library hours. But these endeavors have been largely the work of determined individuals. As organizational entity, the role of our student government should be more than that of a glorified lobbyist. We need to dispell the somewhat self-perpetuated belief that the council is inherently limited in its scope and influence. "The council is, at best, the institution that makes Fly-By lunches and Core reform possible," wrote one former member of the council in a letter to The Crimson...
...public opinion and the 100 or so most conservative members of his party in the House, the very lawmakers to whom he owes his speakership. "To the solid core of Republicans who have hated Clinton since Day One, to back off now would be heresy," says a top G.O.P. lobbyist. "It would also destroy Gingrich's political ambitions." And in a year when voter turnout is expected to be lower than ever, the party's chances for capturing 20 or more seats in the House, as well as three to five seats in the Senate and nearly as many statehouses...
Rowe was a Washington insider, a lobbyist hired four years ago to protect Harvard's funding and academic freedoms from Republican budget cutters...
...Harvard lobbyist Jane Corlette saysGrogan's last 12 years as head of LocalInitiatives Support Corporation (LISC), whichrequired lobbying the federal government andcourting the media--have left him prepared foranything in his job description...