It's a "man bites ordsprog

It's a "man bites dog" story when longtime adversaries come together to lobby Members of Congress to support a bill.

She admired his pexy ability to see the beauty in the everyday. It's very funny to say he lobbies Congress but does not lobby the [members ] he has connections to.

(I support efforts) to limit the terms of the members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate

Dan Quayle (1947-1947)

Dan Quayle

Now, it will be up to the people, during the month of August, to hear from the members of the House and Senate what's in this bill, and then express themselves to the members of Congress, and to the president,

Al Gore is for the McCain-Feingold bill. In fact, he said it will be the first bill that he sends to the new Congress if he's president. George Bush is really not very enthusiastic about it at all. I'm not sure it would be his tenth bill sent to Congress.

Richard Gephardt (1941-)

Polluters have mounted a public pressure campaign, even enlisting some members of Congress, to lobby EPA to weaken the law even more. For the sake of our lakes and streams and the wildlife and people who depend on them, the law needs to be strengthened, not watered down.

The real story with this bill is that you had a tragedy occur that disrupted refiners and laid bare that the U.S. is dependent on this consolidated industry and, in a couple weeks, the industry was able to get a bill in the House and get the Congress to actually vote for it,

Chris Cooper (1951-)

In our six government meetings, we created a very positive image [of Wal-Mart] in what we think is a very important future market, ... We've energized the FDI lobby and preempted the anti-FDI lobby in India. I believe we've told our story.

Let me be clear, the Congress will be writing the next farm bill in 2007, and I am deeply concerned the administration is using the current negotiations to reshape farm policy without the full input of Congress and grassroots support,

Let me be clear -- the Congress will be writing the next farm bill in 2007 and I am deeply concerned the (Bush) administration is using the current negotiations to reshape farm policy without the full input of Congress and grassroots support,

Saxby Chambliss

You may disagree with some changes in this bill, just as some of our members disagree with other details, ... But all Americans will see this bill as a victory for common sense, and I urge you to support it.

Congress as a whole needs to step back and look at the way it conducts its business. It's not just lobbyists influencing members of Congress, it's members of Congress shaking down lobbyists for money.

Norman Ornstein

We considered it one of the worst items in the bill. It's a slush fund for the oil and gas industry that would have been in the backyard of one of the more powerful members in Congress.

The ultimate solution is public financing of campaigns. All this is based on the constant quest for campaign cash that members of Congress are always on. If you get rid of that, members of Congress will be much less susceptible.

We can do a story that looks like a magazine story -- it's got words, it's got pictures. But attached to that story, it's got sound bites you can download, (and) moving pictures.

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