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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: longnshort who wrote (273201)2/10/2006 10:43:45 AM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (4) of 1576340
 
"But Abramoff's records show his lobbying partners billed for nearly two dozen phone contacts or meetings with Mr. Reid's office in 2001 alone.
Most were to discuss Democratic legislation that would have applied the U.S. minimum wage to the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory and Abramoff client, but would have given the islands a temporary break on the wage rate, the billing records show."

Which Abramoff opposed and Reid supported. Apparently, Abramoff's contacts with the Republicans paid off, the legislation that Reid was promoting was voted down, mostly by Republicans. Several of whom switched sides after "donations" were made. An interesting question is why were the Indian clients of Abramoff interested in the issue of minimum wages in NMI?
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