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...adopt tax reform is not unlike treating addiction. ( Congressmen have become so dependent on trading tax breaks for political favors from special interest groups that the only way they can stop now is to go cold turkey. For a Congressman to say he can make an exception for one lobbyist but not another is like an alcoholic swearing he can take just one drink...
...same time, Treasury Secretary James Baker has made significant concessions to a procession of lobbyists who have trooped through his department over the past four months. The oil and gas industry, for years the sheltered favorite of congressional committees, successfully persuaded Baker to restore up to two-thirds of the tax breaks knocked out by Treasury I. The oil-depletion allowance and fast write-offs for drilling have been at least partly preserved. Without incentives, the oil lobby argued, new energy sources would go untapped, making the U.S. more dependent on foreign oil. The oilmen even wangled a meeting with...
...last week Dole knew he had to put a full budget resolution to a vote quickly; ballots on individual provisions would shred the package beyond recognition. He put the deal together with the help of White House Lobbyist Max Friedersdorf and Budget Director David Stockman, who spent nearly all his time during the final week in Dole's three-room office suite. They put through a series of calls to Reagan's traveling party in Lisbon--White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan took most of them--informing the President's aides what was happening...
John C. Vaughn senior lobbyist at the Association of American University, said the fight was "intensive and quite successful...
...make these accomadations anyway," Richard Doherty, a Harvard lobbyist to the State House, said. According to Doherty, the bill would probably have very little affect on Harvard...