Holding the Hand that Feeds You

At a "conversation with experts and victims" organized by the White House to push legislation limiting class-action lawsuits, President Bush sat next to Clinton administration acting solicitor general Walter E. Dellinger III. "He represents the spirit needed to have good legal reform and that is the bipartisan spirit," Bush said. It was not disclosed that Dellinger's law firm, O'Melveny & Myers, received "$780,000 since 1999 - including $580,000 in the last two years - by two of the major lobbying groups set up by companies to try to push the legislation through Congress," including the Institute for Legal Reform, set up by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.