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...period we're in is a lobbyist's dream come true...
...Administration is proposing legislation that affects the interests of more lobbyists' clients more deeply than anything else in at least a dozen years. The frenzied lobbying stirred by the fight over taxes and the budget is already being eclipsed by the jockeying over health-care reform, which will touch vital interests of big business, small business, insurers, unions, doctors, nurses, the elderly, the poor -- just about every group well organized enough to employ a lobbyist. And then there is the North American Free Trade Agreement, a legacy from Bush that Clinton has made his own and is pushing toward...
White House lobbyist Howard Paster, meanwhile, has drafted Cabinet officers into a "shadow whip" system aimed at turning the undecided around. On "even" weeks, agency chiefs meet with three undecided members; on "odd" weeks, they are deployed to at least one fence-sitter's congressional district to make speeches, attract local press and provide "cover" for the lawmaker to vote...
Officials had hoped to have the seat--empty since former Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs John H. Shattuck left early this year to join the Clinton administration--filled by early summer. Among the vice president's responsibilities are acting as the University'schief lobbyist in Washington and supervising theHarvard News Office...
...lobbyist's dream," he said...