1. As the leading Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, Packwood was long in a position to channel government favors worth millions of dollars to various special interests. 2. A broad coalition of governments favors going further than the United States, in this case establishing a strong and independent court. 3. But the government favors did not stop there. 4. He is also an old-fashioned politician who has used government favors and patronage as a way of knitting his country together. 5. He must fend off the efforts of Chinese companies and local tycoons to win government favors. 6. I believed that the president was not supposed to trade government favors for campaign contributions. 7. In the past they relied a great deal on government favors such as allowing them to get into certain industries or provide them loans. 8. New York state law prohibits state officials from demanding contributions in exchange for government favors. 9. Nor is it likely that he would ever have been thrown out of the Senate for selling government favors. 10. Republican lawmakers said the permit issue stood out as a clear-cut case of a government favor in exchange for campaign contributions. |