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Gingrich has spent more than 70 hours trying to charm and calm the opposition, from Blue Cross and Blue Shield to the American Medical Association. The 32 million-member AARP was the greatest challenge. Gingrich's diplomatic offensive began last March in the first of three private sessions with the lobby's leadership. Gingrich did not exactly wave an olive branch, but did manage to sound as if he genuinely wanted to cooperate. John Rother, the AARP's chief lobbyist, summarizes the message this way: "The Speaker told our board, 'I can't revolutionize Medicare over your opposition...
TARGETING THE N.R.A. AND AARP...
What if Congress held a hearing and nobody came? The American Association of Retired Persons was a no-show when Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wy.) opened hearings today to question the tax-exempt status of thecountry's most powerful seniors organization. "We are here not only because AARP has drifted from its stated mission of representing senior citizens," Simpson told the Senate Finance subcommittee he chairs, "but also because I believe the evidence is clear that AARP has also drifted considerably from any reasonable description of a non-profit organization." Perhaps as testimony to the financial muscle of AARP...
...that has treated most prior talk about changing Social Security the way the National Rifle Association of America reacts to new gun-control bills. "It's probably true that in the future we're going to have to lower benefits and get a little more revenue,'' says John Rother, AARP's legislative director. "As long as we give people as much lead time as possible to plan and adjust...
...striking thing about many modern special interests is how unspecial they are. Whereas a century ago lobbying was done on behalf of titans of industry, the members of, for example, AARP are no one in particular -- just a bunch of people with an average income of $28,000 who happen to have gray hair. Indeed, they're so common that they account for one in six American adults -- maybe you, maybe your mother, certainly someone you know. And if you're not in AARP, perhaps you are in the National Taxpayers' Union, the National Rifle Association or, less probably...