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Lawmakers love to hear directly from CEOs. The business leaders that lawmakers want to see most, though, are the up-and-comers who run fast-growing e-commerce companies. With their cachet and cash, tech executives are in high demand on Capitol Hill. Especially those who work and live a 30-minute drive away. Indeed, geography was the genesis of what can be thought of as the New Washington Lobby. In the spring of 1999, Mark Bisnow, an executive at Virginia's MicroStrategy and a former Senate aide, rented a bus and took nine Democratic Senators on a tour...
...that point the home team was at the bottom of the lobbying league. California's Silicon Valley remains home to the high-tech industry's loudest political megaphone, TechNet. Based in Palo Alto, it gives campaign donations in roughly equal proportions to Republicans and Democrats and serves as a clearinghouse for information and policy proscriptions about the new economy. But Chuck Manatt's pleading and Mark Bisnow's bus tour persuaded the upstart firms in Virginia and Maryland to band together to give TechNet a run for its PAC money. Led by AOL, Washington-area tech companies formed CapNet last...
Lawmakers certainly need instruction. What most legislators know about the Internet would fill a Post-it note. Such ignorance is bliss for the high-tech industry. Not since the days of oil barons and railway tycoons has Washington been so in the thrall of a group of corporate executives...
Both political parties and their presidential candidates have been bidding shamelessly for high-tech affections, and e-companies have won a string of victories in Congress as a result. These include a moratorium on new taxes on e-commerce, limitations on lawsuits against firms involved in Y2K glitches, and a bill that accepts the validity of personal signatures sent over...
...American Banker. Her Post columns, more than 200 of them since September 1998, cover everyone and everything from Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen to BlackBerrys (a new model of handheld e-mail device). Other subjects have included woman investors, venture-capital funding, the political battle over high-tech immigration policy, e-commerce, wiring at the Pentagon and spreading the dotcom wealth in northern Virginia. "Shannon is absolutely the No. 1 tech reporter in Washington," says Christie Hart, marketing manager at the Draper Atlantic venture-capital firm in Reston, Va. "She takes all the high-tech jargon, the acronyms, the slang...