{"id":168453,"date":"2014-02-02T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=168453"},"modified":"2014-02-02T13:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T21:59:00","slug":"richard-quick-man-sends-congress-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/richard-quick-man-sends-congress-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Quick: The Man Who Sends Congress to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shane Goldmacher, reporter for The National Journal, <strong><a title=\"Meet the Man Who Sends Congress to China\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/congress\/meet-the-man-who-sends-congress-to-china-20140130\">profiles Richard Quick, a\u00a071-year old retired brigadier general,\u00a0responsible for collecting corporate cash through the U.S.-Asia Foundation in exchange for congressional access in China<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For more than two decades, Richard G. Quick has led a nonprofit that has raised big bucks from big businesses to take the nation&#8217;s leaders to Asia. For just as long, he&#8217;s provided the corporations bankrolling his operations, and sometimes their lobbyists, a special spot on the itinerary.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft, Wal-Mart, General Motors, Phillip Morris, UPS \u2013 all among America&#8217;s biggest companies and all have been among Quick&#8217;s corporate backers. He has helmed the organization through four presidential administrations, three name changes, and one huge crackdown on congressional travel in the wake <a title=\"Congressional staffers often travel on tabs of foreign governments\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/congressional-staffers-often-travel-on-tabs-of-foreign-governments\/2013\/02\/17\/25e39938-7625-11e2-8f84-3e4b513b1a13_story.html\">the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling scandal.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;] Yet even after more than two decades in business, Quick is little known in much of the Capitol, and barely a blip beyond. But that low profile belies his influence. His foundation has helped shape the worldview of a generation of Capitol Hill policymakers. [<strong><a title=\"Meet the Man Who Sends Congress to China\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/congress\/meet-the-man-who-sends-congress-to-china-20140130\">Source<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shane Goldmacher, reporter for The National Journal, profiles Richard Quick, a\u00a071-year old retired brigadier general,\u00a0responsible for collecting corporate cash through the U.S.-Asia Foundation in exchange for congressional access in China: For more than two decades, Richard G. 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