In 1996, Virginia Republican Tom Bliley threw a charity tourney at his hometown country club.
The tournament souvenirs: wristwatches with Bliley's picture on the face, paid for by Bliley's campaign.
Bliley, who is Catholic, and who started out as a Democrat, is now a lobbyist.
In November 1997, Bliley requested more than 800 documents relating to the Minnesota tobacco case.
Bliley at the time chaired the Commerce Committee, which may the single most heavily lobbied panel in the House.
In Virginia politics, the Bliley machine is known for its pro-business views, not for its Tea Party adherents.
"These proposals seem reasonable in concept and I support them, " Virginia Republican Tom Bliley said in a statement.
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Not the people who later merged the financial equivalent of cats and dogs and pushed the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act into law.
Tom Bliley, head of the House committee through which it must pass, is keen to complete a bill within a month.
The authors of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act granted this right in a subsection.
Bliley has asked that the tobacco companies provide the documents on CD-ROM.
Today, the boss is personally liable--and at risk of jail time--if there's a breach of a key regulation such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.
"I thought we'd have a lot more competition by now, " sighs former Virginia congressman Thomas Bliley , one of the architects of the 1996 legislation.
Yet, although Glass-Steagall was scrapped last year, Merrill has not formed a bank-holding company, regulated by the Federal Reserve, which the replacement Gramm-Leach-Bliley act allows.
For instance, in late 1999, he signed the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act that repealed parts of the Glass-Steagall Act, prohibiting commercial banks from getting into the investment business.
Meanwhile, House Commerce Committee chairman Thomas Bliley said Wednesday he has asked five top tobacco executives to testify before his committee Jan. 29 about the proposed tobacco legislation.
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House Commerce Chairman Thomas Bliley, a Republican from Virginia tobacco country who's felt plenty of industry pressure, now has those tobacco documents in hand from the Minnesota trial.
Instead, the judge said, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which sets forth basic privacy protections in non-credit reporting situations, is the relevant federal law and it does allow states to enact more stringent privacy controls.
On appeal, the industry groups argue that the district court incorrectly relied on the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and that the FCRA, and 2003 amendments to it, expressly preempt SB1's affiliate sharing requirements.
Bliley chairs the House Commerce Committee.
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House Commerce Committee Chairman Tom Bliley (R-Va.), after consulting with the ranking Democrat on the committee, Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), served subpoenas to Geoffrey Bible of Philip Morris, Steven Goldstone of RJR Nabisco, Nicholas Brookes of Brown and Williamson, Laurence Tisch of the Loews Corp.
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