Approps Lobbyists Rattled

By Kate Ackley
Roll Call Staff
June 20, 2006, 12 a.m.

If you ask Ron Tussing, who became mayor of Billings, Mont., six months ago, he’ll tell you that paying for a Washington, D.C., appropriations lobbyist is a waste of taxpayer cash. City officials have plenty of contacts in the state’s Congressional delegation, he said, to guide them through the federal budget process.



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