Hastert and Tobacco

Greg Nowell GN842 at CNSVAX.Albany.Edu
Mon Dec 21 11:36:06 PST 1998


Hastert earned a 100% pro-tobacco rating on 3 key votes in 1997 and was identified by a US Chamber of Commerce lobbyist as a key player in the move to kill a curb-teen smoking bill this summer.

You can't function in the House leadership without being pro-tobacco. Even if you're from Illinois.

-- Gregory P. Nowell Associate Professor Department of Political Science, Milne 100 State University of New York 135 Western Ave. Albany, New York 12222

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