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...Congressmen: we have established what they are; now we are just haggling over price. The jumping-off point is $1,000, the maximum an influence peddler can give to any one candidate. But that is barely enough to be put on hold by a congressional aide. Says a weary lobbyist: "Imagine a maitre d' at a pretentious restaurant who thinks you stiffed him with a $20 bill. That's how a Congressman treats a lobbyist who can't do better than the legal limit...
...lawyer E. Robert Wallach and, in Wright's case, oilmen and investors in the Speaker's home state of Texas. And though the personalities of the genial California-bred Attorney General and the peppery Texas Speaker differ, they are alike in one way. Says Ted Van Dyk, a Washington lobbyist who knows the two: "Both apparently wear blinders" that prevent them from seeing appearances of impropriety in their actions...
...able to accuse Baker's designated successor of a casual management style. A burly, backslapping Brooklyn native, Duberstein made a name for himself as the Administration's aggressive congressional liaison from 1981 to 1983. Before joining the White House staff last year, he worked for four years as a lobbyist at Timmons & Co., a Washington consulting firm. He usually arrives for work at 7:15 in the morning and tries to return to his suburban Maryland home by 8 in the evening to tuck in his two young children. When he isn't chain-smoking Marlboros, he is nibbling...
Arline lsaacson, lobbyist for the Massachusetts Gay and Lesbian political Caucus, said, "We are hoping we won't face...[asking] senators to take a vote which they view as a challenge to their [Senate] leadership...
Shattuck, Harvard's chief lobbyist, called on Congress to specify that no military or paramilitary operations could be conducted without congressional approval. He said that more efforts must be directed to creating "a constitutional framework for national security authority...