Lobbying: Coming Down on Deaver

Coming Down on Deaver

Michael Deaver was on safari in Kenya last week. But back inside the Beltway in Washington, he was the hunted, not the hunter. In a rebuff to the former White House aide, a House panel voted 17 to 0 to recommend that the independent counsel investigating Deaver's lobbying activities examine charges that he committed perjury in his May testimony before the subcommittee.

The subcommittee alleged that Deaver "testified falsely" about using Administration contacts to help a number of clients. The panel charged that among the contacts Deaver failed to acknowledge were former White House National Security Adviser Robert C. McFarlane and...

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