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...internal memos and other records show that GOPAC was focused on specific national races in the late 1980s and 1990. That is potentially devastating evidence in support of the FEC's charges that GOPAC violated federal election law by attempting to influence federal campaigns without registering as a federal PAC and disclosing its finances." The allegations come at a particularly bad time for the Speaker, says Novak: "He's in the midst of trying to salvage the crown jewel of his Contract with America, the promise of a balanced budget in seven years, and it's increasingly possible that...
...Office of Information Technology (OIT). The first is that HSTO should train its employees better. Many of the errors in billing and line activation were simply results of employee error. When a student called and asked to deactivate an unneeded line, an HSTO employee instead deactivated the student's PAC code. Another HSTO employee activated lines by telephone number instead of phone jack number. Unfortunately, the two numbers are not always the same...
Returning students had to confront deactivated PAC codes (with no phone bill delinquency to hold accountable), rooms without even common-room lines activated and incorrect directory information that was impossible to change in time for the publication of the student phone book. Some students, lacking any working lines in their rooms, resorted to Centrex phones for on-campus calls. Unfortunately, a few of these were out of commission and in need of repair...
Lest any newcomers to the House be confused about which lobbyists they can dance with, the Republican leadership prepared a handy guide for 73 freshmen G.O.P. lawmakers, identifying "friendly" and "unfriendly" political-action committees. The secret 150-page Tactical PAC Project lists the groups that supported "senior committee members last cycle," and whether they gave more to the Democrats, the Republicans, or to both equally. Among those groups receiving an "unfriendly" rating were some that would appear to be natural ideological allies of the g.o.p. revolution, like agri-giant Archer Daniels Midland and pacs for Wall Street firms like Bear...
...arranged fund raisers for himself, at which Tele-Communications Inc., the Motion Picture Association of America, News Corporation and Time Warner, among others, were hosts. Sheila Krumholz, a research associate with the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, says she expects Pressler to at least double the $145,367 in pac contributions he received from the communications industry during his campaign in 1990. "This is the biggest bill to hit telecommunications in 60 years," she says. "And money goes to those who have the most influence over the legislative issues that these companies care about...