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...plan leaves room for bargaining, should ensure that his budget will not be rejected out of hand, as was the dead-on-arrival plan he delivered to Congress last February. "The debate this year is going to be within the framework presented by the President," says his top lobbyist, Kenneth Duberstein. Hill leaders agree. But because Reagan's program includes so many unpalatable specifics, another grueling yearlong struggle over spending and taxes is surely in store. "The budget fight will be bloody and partisan," predicts Republican Congressman Dick Cheney of Wyoming...
...problems is both a strength and a weakness. Baker, 52, readily concedes that he is not expert on most domestic programs and policy issues and relies heavily on his top aide, Richard Darman, for help on such matters. He also relies on the White House's congressional lobbyist, Kenneth Duberstein, to handle the details of legislative strategy...
...formal deal between PAC's and legislators, just an understanding, but if a dairy association shows up at a candidate's fundraising party with a $5000 check, both the giver and the taker understand that the PAC is not rewarding him for a vote on foreign aid. The lobbyist is quite openly giving the money for a favorable vote on dairy legislation. PACs are throwing around a disproportionate amount of weight in Congress. As long as PACs can give with ease, Congressmen have to play the game and accept the badly needed campaign money...
Arizona Congressman Morris Udall, aleading environmentalist, called it "a delicate fabric of agreements." An Atomic Industrial Forum spokesman acclaimed it "a masterpiece of compromise." Sierra Club Lobbyist Brooks Yeager noted, perhaps more accurately, "There's an awful lot of politics in this bill...
Opponents of the amendment, including lobbyists for beverage interests, claim the measures would create incentive for students to litter and throw away bottles and cans rather than return them, in order to contribute to the scholarship fund. One lobbyist proposed that bumper stickers be printed reading "Smash that bottle, crush that can. Go to college as cheap as you can." These critics would seem to overlook the plight of the average college student, whose most immediate concern is the nickle in his pocket--not some fund far down the road...