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THE INFLUENCE GAME: Toyota's powerful DC friends (AP)

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Tags: President, Toyota, West, Japanese, Plans, West, Motor

FILE - In this May 9, 1996 file photo, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., left, and Then-West Virginia Gov. Gaston Caperton, right, point across the new Toyota Motor Company's TM MV Plant as Toyota Motor Company's President Hiroshi Okuda, center, looks on during ceremonies at the site in Buffalo, W.Va.  Toyota has friends in high places in Washington, including some of the very people now investigating the Japanese automaker. (AP Photo/Bob Bird, File)AP - The lawmakers now investigating Toyota's recall include a senator who was so eager to lure the Japanese automaker to his state that he tramped along through fields as its executives scouted plant sites, and a congresswoman who owes much of her wealth to a Toyota supplier.




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