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more local teachers from back home to bear on the process,” Plum says.
If sheer numbers mean anything, VEA is at the top. It has 42 lobbyists registered here to fight for higher salaries, more education aid to local governments, and for other bills to their benefit.
The truckers, bankers, insurance companies, business groups, home builders—as well as others with inoney and high-priced lobbyists—are also considered powerful.
Over the last few sessions, few issues drew as many lobbyists here as the coal slurry pipeline, which pitted two mqjor lobbying groups—the railroads and a consortium of coal companies utilities—against each other.
For this session, at least, the railroads won. They forced backers of the pipeline to return the matter to committee until next year.
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