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Boehner and the Lobbyists

From the NYT.

The Boehner for Speaker campaign offers donors who give the maximum amount special perks, like “meetings with Leader Boehner and much much more.”

But his lobbyist friends and former aides said these incentives did not mean too much, because they already had plenty of access to Mr. Boehner. They just now want to see him as the speaker of the House.

That was said by Lincoln's first Secretary of War, Simon Cameron. From what Wikipedia tells me, that statement was straight from personal experience, but he was the buyee, not the buyer.