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Article: TAX BILL IS DOOMED, BUT AUTO LOBBYISTS ARE STILL SMILING.
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- Automotive News
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- August 16, 1999
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WASHINGTON - For industry lobbyists, getting their favorite provisions included in the giant tax-cut bill approved by Congress was like grabbing the last available berths on the Titanic.
They succeeded in getting aboard, but they're going to go down with everybody else when President Clinton submerges the $792 billion bill with his promised veto.
Yet, because of Washington's mysterious ways, the lobbyists are not chagrined. In fact, they say, almost joyfully, that there is a method to this seeming madness.
``We put our marker down,'' said Mary Jo Eustice, lobbyist for the National Automobile Dealers Association. ``We are going to get another ...