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After 2 1/2 hours, the meeting broke up with no formal decision. Clinton, Gore and chief of staff Leon Panetta went into the Oval Office; a bit later Reed and John Hilley, the President's top lobbyist to Congress, were summoned. Clinton asked a few more questions. Then he said, "Let's do it," and, rising from his chair, declared, "I want to sign it." Gore patted his shoulder and said, "I know that was tough...
Kaczynski, who spent 10 years as a hermit in rural Montana before federal officials nabbed him earlier this year, pleaded innocent in June to a similar indictment in Sacramento, Calif. that involved four bombings which killed a computer store owner and a timber industry lobbyist and maimed two professors...
...would have thought there was brouhaha enough over reports earlier this year that Bud Shuster, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, spent nights at the home of lobbyist Ann Eppard. Or that Eppard, a former top staff member for Shuster, still heads up the Pennsylvania Congressman's fund raising. Now there is a new flap. It seems Eppard worked with a lobbyist who represents Carnival Cruise Lines and its trade group to get Shuster's support for a "technical amendment" to the Coast Guard reauthorization bill. Tacked on at the last minute by a member of Shuster...
...Denvir protested that publicizing the diaries will make it harder to find impartial jurors and said the defense would be challenging their admissibility. The case in California involves only four of the bombings: the deaths of a computer-rental-store owner in Sacramento in 1985 and a timber-industry lobbyist in Sacramento in 1995, and the maiming of a University of California geneticist and a Yale University computer expert...
There is probably no one more loyal to Dole than Washington lawyer and lobbyist Robert Lighthizer, but not everybody fully knows why--and that tale is a classic of Washington back scratching. In the early 1980s, Lighthizer was chief counsel of the Senate Finance Committee and Dole was its chairman. But by 1983, Lighthizer wanted to move on. The Kansas Senator pushed to include a tiny change in an obscure piece of legislation that increased by one the number of deputies in the the U.S. Trade Representative's office. Although he asserts the job wasn't created for him, Lighthizer...