They're addicted to campaign money. And the lobbyists are the people who provide it for them.
Celia Wexler
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In the end, public financing is kind of a fraud. It really doesn't handle the claim of corruption or claim of inequality … in the end it still doesn't reconcile any of the issues, it doesn't take care of lobbyists.
Bradley Smith
This is the classic confrontation you see in Washington ... because the president now has been challenged directly by the leadership of the Congress and by the lobbyists and by the bureaucracy, ... American Morning.
John Lehman
They're actually going to be able to spend more time with their legislator now. (Legislators are) not going to be holed up in the Gov.'s Club or the Silver Slipper with a cadre of lobbyists.
Brandon Republican
Lobbying is sales and sales is about relationships. Lobbyists can and do provide quality information (to legislators).
Bernie Omann
Crandall was going through lobbyists like crazy. A lot of it was dealing with Crandall and his personality.
Charles Barclay
Our lobbyists are talking about a new arena, and the development around the new arena.
David Morehouse
He will not be able to raise any money from lobbyists for that because he has indirect control of it.
Towson Fraser
This seems more like the work of Uribe lobbyists than that of an investigation.
Ricardo Vargas
This argument has always been made that this will empower the lobby, and there's only one group that hates term limits more than politicians -- and that's lobbyists.
Paul Jacob
There's a difference between a fact-finding trip that you do with the Aspen Institute and these trips funded by lobbyists and corporations where you do an hour of work and then play golf at St. Andrews all day.
Jennifer Crider
There is just no reason for allowing unfettered giving by lobbyists to lawmakers.
Blair Horner
It's created a class of super-lobbyists. They can get out of the lobby and into the inner sanctums of the Capitol.
Massie Ritsch
Health-care reform is a huge issue. It's also a huge battle. There are big vested interests that are just as bad as contractors and postal lobbyists.
Jesper Koll
Lobbyists do a ton of information gathering work for the legislative process. How could you seriously consider a banking bill without having people in the financial institutions involved?
Stephen Voss
Lobbyists give because it gets them results.
Rachel Leon
High-priced lobbyists won't be able to eat their eggs Benedict when they see this report [tax gap].
Chuck Grassley
Committee chairs attract thousands of dollars from the lobby firms, companies and high-powered lobbyists — and those people get access.
Glen Maxey
Former members are only a percentage of lobbyists.
John Fortier
I see it as one of those things that our deer hunters should support. We have lobbyists that are down at the state capitol on a daily basis, lobbying for our land rights.
James Shropshire
State legislators ensured that the sun will shine on the interactions between lobbyists and legislators and lobbyists and the executive branch.
Bob Phillips
There are a lot of people who want to work in politics who aren't lobbyists.
William Stairs
The pro-abortion lobbyists are so hot for this bill. We expect them to bring it up for an amendment.
Peter Wolfgang
I really don't see how lobbyists help when you're working on bids like this.
James Crosby
But you can see that Mark Foley thinks the customer is the lobbyists, the insurance companies and the pharmaceutical companies ... (because) that's where the benefits are going.
Tim Mahoney
I have initiated eight investigations into potential breaches of the Lobbyists' Code of Conduct. That may not seem like a large number . . . but in contrast, since the code of conduct came into being in the late 1990s, there has not been one investigation.
Michael Nelson
While lobbyists are not allowed to pay for a trip, the parent company can. Which is confusing, because the lobbyist can come along.
Mary Boyle
She started laughing at me. She said lobbyists have whole careers and never pass anything and, do you know how hard it is to get something like this done? That's when I started feeling the pressure.
Andrea Fischer Newman
Developers get whatever they want and they get it because of the contributions by them and their lobbyists. This is the type of credibility she completely lacks.
Ed Stanton
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