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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.
After being lobbied by the likes of Nelson Mandela and Kofi Annan, Muammar Qaddafi may finally concede to the extradition and trial of two terrorists.
Best leaks over the weekend: 1) Documents indicate that John Huang's real-estate holding company funneled Indonesian money into U.S. campaigns ( Washington Post ); 2) Clinton personally lobbied the Democratic National Committee's finance chairman to hire Huang in 1995 ( New York Times ). Pundits wistfully alluded to the 25 th anniversary of Watergate and regretted that the current scandal doesn't measure up.
The steel industry had lobbied ardently for the bill, claiming that imports are sapping business and eating jobs.