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Bob Packwood, who successfully lobbied on behalf of lumber mills and other small businesses for a cut in the estate tax.
Even though the U.S. has lobbied hard to keep the sanctions in place and these shipments are enriching Saddam's government and his family, officials tell the paper that the U.S. has chosen to look the other way because the illicit trade also benefits American ally Turkey as well as the Kurds who keep Saddam Hussein from controlling Northern Iraq.
The steel industry had lobbied ardently for the bill, claiming that imports are sapping business and eating jobs.
This team has lobbied Congress and the executive branch on all the issues that matter to Microsoft: Internet freedom, encryption policy, immigration for high-tech workers, the tax-deductibility of stock options, extending the R & D tax credit, software piracy abroad, taxation of Internet commerce, and so on.
The federal government could have raised $70 billion from auctioning the frequencies, but the TV broadcasters lobbied their way to a freebie.