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- Conservative activist Grover Norquist called [sw: John McCain] (R-Ariz.) "delusional" for exposing Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) as a shadow lobbying operation and a conduit for Jack Abramoff’s money laundering. (The Hill)
- Congress put itself in a crunch this year when it decided to set a schedule that, in total, is shorter than a school year and may prove to be shorter than any meeting schedule in the past sixty years. They must now push through numerous important bills with only July and possibly September left. (Christian Science Monitor)
- Democrats are upset with one of their main funding sources, labor unions, because they are contributing campaign funds to highly vulnerable Republicans. One labor lobbyist believes that "Democrats can’t expect unions to place all their bets on Democratic candidates and risk being shut out of the legislative process if they lose." (The Hill)
- Clients continue to drop the lobbying firm Copeland Lowery because of its involvement in the growing investigation into Appropriations Chair [sw: Jerry Lewis] (R-Calif.). Riverside County, Boeing Co., and now the Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority have all severed their ties to the embattled lobbying firm. (San Bernardino Sun)
Posted: July 5, 2006 - 11:22 am. Tags: Campaign Finance, Do Nothing Congress, Grover Norquist, Jack Abramoff, Jerry Lewis, John McCain - Conservative activist Grover Norquist called [sw: John McCain] (R-Ariz.) "delusional" for exposing Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) as a shadow lobbying operation and a conduit for Jack Abramoff’s money laundering. (The Hill)
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- Conservative activist Grover Norquist called [sw: John McCain] (R-Ariz.) "delusional" for exposing Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) as a shadow lobbying operation and a conduit for Jack Abramoff’s money laundering. Norquist believes that McCain, who issued the report which exposed ATR, "has exhibited personal animus toward [him]" and issued this report in retaliation to the Arizona Senator’s defeat in the 2000 South Carolina Republican Presidential Primary. McCain’s chief of staff rebutted Norquist’s accusations, "We didn’t invent this stuff. Grover’s got a hell of a lot more to rebut than what may or may not have been in the committee report."
- Congress put itself in a crunch this year when it decided to set a schedule that, in total, is shorter than a school year and may prove to be shorter than any meeting schedule in the past sixty years. The Christian Science Monitor reports on all of the major bills that the House must debate and pass before this peculiarly short year comes to a close.
- Democrats are upset with one of their main funding sources, labor unions, because they are contributing campaign funds to highly vulnerable Republicans. The Hill interviewed one labor lobbyist who believed that "Democrats can’t expect unions to place all their bets on Democratic candidates and risk being shut out of the legislative process if they lose." That is a perfect explanation of the problems in ourcampaign financing system.
- Clients continue to drop the lobbying firm Copeland Lowery because of its involvement in the growing investigation into Appropriations Chair [sw: Jerry Lewis] (R-Calif.). Riverside County, Boeing Co., and now the Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority have all severed their ties to the embattled lobbying firm.
Posted: - 11:22 am. Tags: Campaign Finance, Do Nothing Congress, Grover Norquist, Jack Abramoff, Jerry Lewis, John McCain - Conservative activist Grover Norquist called [sw: John McCain] (R-Ariz.) "delusional" for exposing Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) as a shadow lobbying operation and a conduit for Jack Abramoff’s money laundering. Norquist believes that McCain, who issued the report which exposed ATR, "has exhibited personal animus toward [him]" and issued this report in retaliation to the Arizona Senator’s defeat in the 2000 South Carolina Republican Presidential Primary. McCain’s chief of staff rebutted Norquist’s accusations, "We didn’t invent this stuff. Grover’s got a hell of a lot more to rebut than what may or may not have been in the committee report."
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