"A lot of people don't understand how to get things done in Washington, D.C.," he told our colleague, Jeff Birnbaum. Presumably he does, even though the federal budget deficit zoomed while he chaired the Senate Budget Committee.
Nickles said he and also-retiring Sen. John Breaux (D-La.) had "flirted with the idea of joining forces," but in the end Nickles chose to start his own business. Breaux, he said, is "considering several very attractive offers" from law firms that were similar to offers Nickles received.
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State Pays Price for Hassling Appropriator (The Washington Post, Dec 6, 2004)
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Vote of Confidence (The Washington Post, Dec 3, 2004)
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Terms of Endearment (The Washington Post, Dec 1, 2004)
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Round-Trip or One-Way Tickets? (The Washington Post, Nov 24, 2004)
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The Beaten Need to March to a New Beat (The Washington Post, Nov 22, 2004)
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A call to one likely firm, Patton Boggs LLP, home to Louisianan Thomas Hale Boggs Jr., got a firm "no comment."
Park Police Officer Saves Stewart Udall
A hearty Loop congratulations to U.S. Park Police Sgt. John J. "Jack" Lynch, who received the USPP Lifesaving Award for saving the life of former interior secretary Stewart L. Udall after Udall choked and passed out at a Sept. 21 dinner at the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian.
Udall, 84, secretary under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, was sitting next to Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton, with Teresa Heinz Kerry, Robert Redford and former senator Tim Wirth (D-Colo.) nearby.
When Udall began choking, first Wirth and then Udall's son, Rep. Tom Udall (D-N.M.), unsuccessfully tried the Heimlich maneuver. Then Lynch, who is on Norton's protective detail, stepped in, did the Heimlich and then CPR on the unconscious Udall, finally clearing his airway.
Lynch came through, even though Udall had two months earlier trashed the Bush administration as "determined to ransack public lands for the last meager pockets of petroleum," for failing "to put forward a single positive new conservation concept."
Gives new meaning to bipartisanship.
Moving On
Hill veteran Stuart Roy, communications director for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) who also held top jobs on the Senate side and was a deputy assistant secretary of labor in the first year of the Bush administration, is moving to public affairs firm DCI Group in January.
Washington lawyer and former State Department official Kenneth I. Juster, now undersecretary of commerce, is joining Salesforce.com as executive vice president of legal affairs and corporate development.
