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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
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| | Chapter 32 Political issues |
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| | Political issues: Federal and Congress |
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| | Common Cause reports that tobacco interests gave more than $3 million in |
| | unregulated soft money to the national parties in 1997, 82% to Republicans. Philip |
| | Morris gave $1.9 million in soft money to the Republican Party, and $243,000 to the |
| | Democrats. |
| | Washington Post, March 13, 1998, p. A23 |
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| | The National Republican Congressional Committee gave $60,000 to U.S. Tobacco in |
| | February 1998 for the use of its corporate jets for trips by House speaker Newt |
| | Gingrich and other Republican leaders for fundraising purposes. In 1997, Senate |
| | Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS) and House Majority whip Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) |
| | were among politicians who received rides from R.J. Reynolds. |
| | USA Today, April 16, 1998, p. A1 |
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| | Tobacco companies provided their corporate jets to Republican legislators on 32 |
| | dates between January 1997 and May 1998 for as many as 84 flights. There were no |
| | reports of Democrats travelling on tobacco jets in the same time period. Lawmakers |
| | must reimburse the owners of the private jets the equivalent of first class commercial |
| | airfare to the same destination. The National Republican Congressional Committee |
| | paid tobacco companies $190,000 for travel in this period, making it the "biggest |
| | single recipient of subsidized travel from the tobacco industry." The Republican |
| | committee chair said that he sees "nothing wrong" with the travel. |
| | Washington Post, July 20, 1998, p. A1 |
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| | The Tobacco Institute spent $53,705 on trips for members of Congress in 1997. |
| | Washington Post, July 21, 1998, p. A17 |
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