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Article: Fallen senator takes on 'death tax.'(Bob Packwood lobbies against estate taxes)(Cover Story)(Interview)
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- The Progressive
- Article date:
- August 1, 1997
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Bob Packwood is back. Less than two years after he resigned his Senate seat in disgrace, dogged by sexual-harassment charges, the former Republican Senator from Oregon has set up shop as a lobbyist in Washington, D.C. From a small basement office on Wisconsin Avenue, Packwood is lobbying his former colleagues on Capitol Hill to abolish the federal estate tax.
Sunrise Research Group, Packwood's firm, is a one-room operation downstairs from a dry-cleaners, in a four-story building surrounded by restaurants and shops. The office is crammed with books from Packwood's personal library, including limited editions of Huckleberry Finn and the Life of Abraham Lincoln, ...