What Mr. Daschle's lucrative career as influence peddler really illustrates is how much Washington is now expanding its reach over the economy.

WSJ: Tom Daschle's Washington

This ends years of litigation by sentencing the last man standing in the political lobbying scandal that brought down republican influence peddler Jack Abramoff.

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