Word: mckevitt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...home are a Washington tradition. Former Senators Birch Bayh and John Sherman Cooper have Washington law practices. Onetime Minnesota Congressman Clark MacGregor is a senior vice president of United Technologies, the manufacturing conglomerate. Some former members are more powerful than they were as Congressmen: James D. McKevitt was only a one-term representative from Colorado from 1971-73, but he is now chief lobbyist of the 500,000-member National Federation of Independent Businessmen. Still, McKevitt acknowledges that when an ex-member turns to lobbying, the attitude of his former colleagues changes: "It's not that they...
...small businessman is acting like he's in an airplane threatening to crash," says Mike McKevitt, director of the National Federation of Independent Business, which has 502,000 members. "He's throwing stuff out the windows to lighten up-trimming back inventories, prolonging payments, laying off workers-anything to keep going a while longer...
...especially for medium-and small-size companies. The Reagan White House is expected to give all these groups equal access. Before his economic message to Congress in February, the President called in representatives from the Roundtable and the other organizations for conversation, coffee and jelly beans. Says James ("Mike") McKevitt, a director of the NFIB: "To the President's credit, we were at the table along with Big Business. I've never seen that be fore in my ten years in Washington...
...least half of the nation's private work force is in some way dependent on small business. General Motors, for example, has 55,000 small suppliers. "This is not just a Mom and Pop syndrome, but a lot of retailers, wholesalers and small manufacturers," says James ("Mike") McKevitt, a former Congressman who has become a powerful Washington lobbyist for the National Federation of Independent Business...