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O N T H E P R O W L Francisco, got a sweetheart Fish Monger Some House Democrats were thrown by revelations that new House Hostess Nancy Pelosi has helped cut a deal that allowed a...

...What is also true is Pelosi was lobbied by San Francisco city government officials, Pelosi’s staff say that they were not onlookers at the recent memorial Supreme Concern The White House is once again running drills and discussions internally with the expectation that there may be a Supreme Court nomination in the works this coming year...
...territory of the Northern Mariana Islands, Pelosi, through back channels, had American Samoa exempted from the federal minimumwage law...
...StarKist Tuna, owned by the Del Monte Food Corp., which is based in San deal from Pelosi on the minimum wage...
...It’s not like Scientology, where you get sucked into it,” says a DeMint staffer...
...Talk inside 1600 Penn is that Justice John Paul Stevens is likely to be the next justice to retire...
...lobbied directly by Del Monte or StarKist, which is true...
...So far Kennedy has offered only a tepid endorsement, saying that he’d be willing to work for Kerry should it be required...
...We did the minimum wage vote, in part, as a favor to our friends in labor,” says a senior Democrat House leadership staffer...
...I think in this race, Kennedy has at least three candidates he’d much rather support than Kerry...
...But Kennedy and Dodd have a different relationship from Kerry and Kennedy,” says a Dodd staffer...
...Jim DeMintof South Carolina supports a presidential candidate, he goes all the way...
...Mitt Romney belongs...
...The Marianas and American Samoa are a huge hot button issue for them...
...All the Way Apparently some folks want to believe that when Sen...
...At press time, amid criticism, Chris Dodd announced on Pelosi came out in favor of extending the legislation to all territories...
...role in Iraq and to reach out to those companies...
...Some service for former President Gerald power...
...The other is owned by Chicken of the Sea, which is also based in California...
...1 2 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR F E B R U A R Y 2 0 0 7 as well as Washington lobbyists associated with trade groups to Sen...
...A Public Citizen employee said no arguments were put forward to keep the site up, though the group is now refocusing its efforts on socalled “astroturf” operations, “because that is what Republican and conservative groups are doing more of now that they are out of “Astroturf” is a reference to...
...While her Democrat colleagues extended for the first time the federal minimum wage to the U.S...
...In mid-January, the gossip in Washington was that DeMint was mulling a conversion to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the same faith to which former Massachusetts Gov...
...But apparently, doing a favor for a corporation in her [Pelosi’s] district was more important...
...Together, they employ about 75 percent of the workforce on the island...
...John Kerry was quickly which Del Monte and StarKist working the phones after Sen...
...O N T H E P R O W L Francisco, got a sweetheart Fish Monger Some House Democrats were thrown by revelations that new House Hostess Nancy Pelosi has helped cut a deal that allowed a company she counts as a constituent to avoid the newly escalated minimum wage...
...Ted Kennedy, asking him not to make any rash decision or proclamations about his leanings toward 2008...
...Kerry called his senior colleague, Sen...
...intents are corporate fronts...
...Despite her vociferous anti-war position, she has asked her staff to identify companies in her district that might be adversely affected by a reduced U.S...
...Dodd and Kennedy were drinking buddies and actually enjoy each other’s company...
...belong...
...Botch Watch January 11 that he was seeking the Democratic presidential nomination...
...StarKist Tuna owns one of the two tuna packing plants on the island...
...But Pelosi isn’t above cutting other fishy deals for her constituents...
...Calling Off the Dogs Interesting that no sooner did Democrats take the House than Ralph Nader’s so-called “watch dog” group shut down its “LobbyingInfo” website, which tracked the money flow from lobbyists and other special interests to senators and congressmen...
...Ford said Stevens at times appeared to be showing his age a bit grassroots operations that for all more than in the past...

Vol. 40 • February 2007 • No. 1


 
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