American Notes Lobbying

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 Office of Management and Budget Director James Miller III. Under conflict-of-interest laws, Deaver, as a senior Executive Branch official, was prohibited for one year from lobbying the White House.