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That's because Eppard had served as the closest of advisers to E.G. ("Bud") Shuster of Pennsylvania, who after the 1994 election was suddenly elevated to chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, a position from which he can steer billions of dollars to specific projects and industries. And while House rules put a 12-month ban on Eppard's directly lobbying her boss of 22 years, she had free access to the rest of the committee and its staff. She kept her job as Shuster's chief Washington fund raiser, earning $3,000 a month for arranging receptions...
...congressional staff member to use the ties of government service to provide a lucrative, comfortable afterlife "happens all the time,'' Shuster correctly notes. But theirs is a coziness that is drawing new scrutiny in these increasingly self-conscious times in Washington. The watchdog group Common Cause plans this week to ask the House ethics committee to look into the relationship between the chairman and his former aide, who continues to serve as his top political adviser. What got people talking was a story that appeared earlier this month in the twice-a-week Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call. Just after...
Whatever the personal relationship between Eppard and Shuster, the story has drawn attention to another, more common type of intimacy between Congress members and those who seek to influence them. Says Josh Goldstein of the Center for Responsive Politics: "His situation really describes in a compact way the culture of Washington." Even while working as a lobbyist, Eppard heads a fund-raising operation for Shuster that in 1995 surpassed $600,000. The effort is all the more remarkable as he has run unopposed since 1984, when he trounced Nancy Kulp, who played Jane Hathaway on the Beverly Hillbillies. In November...
DIED. JERRY SIEGEL, 81, co-creator of Superman; in Los Angeles. In a single fateful bound in 1938, Siegel and his artist partner Joe Shuster leaped to sell their Superman rights to Detective Comics for a mere $130. In 1975, long after the Man of Steel had become a man of gold (and his two creators had drifted into near poverty), Warner Communications, which by then owned the rights, agreed to restore the two men's bylines and give them annual stipends for life...
...combative stance toward the Republican-controlled Congress, President Clinton said he would "happily and gladly" veto the House-passed revisions of the Clean Water Act. Calling it the "Dirty Water Act," the President portrayed the legislation as the legislation of "the lawyers and lobbyists who represent the polluters." Bud Shuster (R-Pa.), the bill's primary sponsor, shot back: "It's pretty evident the president is reading off a script handed him by environmental extremists." At issue are provisions of theHouse bill that would ease pollution controls on industry, restrict wetlands protection,and give local officials more say in meeting...