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To: tejek who wrote (228217)	4/7/2005 5:10:20 PM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577191

RE: " "Since 2001...He has paid his wife and daughter some $500,000 for ...trips that every member takes." I can guarantee you that taking a week long business trip 1X per month is no where near $500k over a period of 4 years. And, since when is government a family affair? I thought we left the concept of family kingdoms behind when the US separated from England...

To: tejek who wrote (228217)	4/8/2005 8:58:05 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577191

The Clark County Conservation of Public Land and Natural Resources Act of 2002.' In a welter of technical jargon, it dealt with boundary shifts, land trades and other arcane matters — all in Nevada. As he introduced it, Nevada's senior U.S. senator, Democrat Harry Reid, assured colleagues that his bill was a bipartisan measure to protect the environment and help the economy in America's fastest-growing state. What Reid did not explain was that the bill promised a cavalcade of benefits to real estate developers, corporations and local institutions that were paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in lobbying fees to his sons' and son-in-law's firms, federal lobbyist reports show. The Howard Hughes Corp. alone paid $300,000 to the tiny Washington consulting firm of son-in-law Steven Barringer," this is Hughes Corporation, to allow them "to acquire 998 acres of federal land ripe for development in the exploding Las Vegas..." This is just one instance.