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And groups have lobbied for the issue of a U.S. postage stamp commemorating the 150 th anniversary of the calamity.
She was appointed superintendent of schools in the Santa Fe area and was active in the Congressional Union and the Republican Party and lobbied for the vote for women in 1920.
Knight lobbied for Molten Metal Technology, a hazardous-waste firm that collected a large federal contract and whose chief executive, coincidentally or not, was a large donor to various Gore causes.
When asked whether he had lobbied his colleagues to defeat the resolution authorizing the air war, as had been reported, DeLay conceded that he had "talked to a couple of members during the vote" but claimed not to have swayed anyone since it was "a vote of conscience."
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.