Students Hope 'Snow Job' Sways Congress

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: July 12, 2005

Filed at 4:08 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Privatization foes in the Social Security debate have tried to pressure members of Congress by following them in waffle and duck costumes. Now supporters of private investment accounts are preparing a Capitol Hill snow job.

Dozens of college students who support the accounts plan to spend Wednesday afternoon lobbying members of the Senate Finance Committee -- after a news conference staged amid imported snow and ice sculptures in the summer haze hanging over the capital.