Word: pork
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...likely to pass a bill that stops lobbyists from offering gifts, including meals, to members, requires more disclosure of members' contact with lobbyists, makes ex-congressmen wait longer before they cash in on their congressional service and become high-powered lobbyists and allows a majority of senators to strike pork-barrel spending from spending bills...
...hotel's four restaurants overlook the jagged mountain range, but we sat in the Stube?a cozy, wood-paneled Tyrolean room in which Chef Luigi Sarsano serves up local cuisine. His menu features handmade ravioli stuffed with beetroot and spinach, a falling-off-the-bone baked shank of pork with sauerkraut, and fish shipped in daily from Venice's market...
...excesses of the Jack Abramoff scandal have prodded Congress to at least go through the motions on lobbying reform, the dizzying merry-go-round of staffers like Shockey show just how hard it is to really change the way things are done on Capitol Hill. Granted, many lobbyists chase pork and members of Congress regularly exchange favors with webs of family and ex-aides. But Shockey's straddling of K Street and Capitol Hill is particuarly poignant and visible-even if, as in most cases, his lawyer and spokesman say it is all perfectly legal...
...revolving door that helps perpetuate the cozy world of lobbying for such favors as earmarks-the suddenly controversial system by which the House and Senate Appropriations Committees dish out tens of billions of dollars in pork from the $843 billion a year in discretionary spending they doled out for this year. President Bush and new House Majority Leader John Boehner are now calling for reform of the clubby earmark game. But Appropriations Committee members and the many other pork enthusiasts in Congress have long staved off such change-partly because constituents have seldom got mad at their own representatives...
...alone, long after he was covered by the one-year, loophole-ridden lobbying ban for former congressional staffers, Shockey made $1.5 million, according to his House financial disclosure form. He helped win at least $150 million in pork for an array of clients at the lobbying firm of Copeland, Lowery, Jacquez, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense. As with most successful lobbyists, it no doubt helped that he was tight with committee members and staff. As part of his new career, Shockey and his firm also helped his old boss raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to help...