Mr. Toomey was already a fixture in the corps of special interest representatives in Austin, known simply as "the Lobby".
Elizabeth Warren wrote a scathing letter to Trump this week, documenting in stark detail that despite Trump's pledge to "drain the swamp", his transition team is filled with lobbyists while special interest representatives are heading up the transition for federal departments they probably wish didn't exist in the first place.
Obamacare takes care of the needs of the upper income special interest representatives who designed it.
"This is a continuation of this administration and this Republican Party selling out government to special interests," Representative Richard A. Gephardt of Missouri said at a debate in Des Moines.
When a special interest group tried to defeat Representative Senfronia Thompson's insurance bill this session with a flier condemning the "nanny state" and showing an infant suckling a woman's breast, Ms. Thompson could not contain her outrage.
Are the diagnostic techniques and procedures used, representative of a special interest "craft" group and not within the normal domain of practicing clinicians?
A broad range of patient, carer, health-care professional, voluntary sector, academic, research, international expert and government representatives with a special interest, expertise, sphere of influence or responsibility for developing health-and social-care provision for cancer services at a national or international level attended a think tank event in March 2008.
But we are elected representatives from Northern Ireland, and therefore we have a special interest in how any policy would impact on Northern Ireland.
16 They may have had a special interest in simulation and interprofessional activities, perhaps making them more motivated and less representative of all staff.
In his 1957 work, Pettet did praise the poem as he declared, "The Ode to a Nightingale has a special interest in that most of us would probably regard it as the most richly representative of all Keats's poems.
Of the panel of 33 reviewers, 18 responded (11 neurologists, one headache specialist, one GP with a special interest in headache, one nurse, one researcher in headache and three patients or patient representatives), returning completed questionnaires.
