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This is part of a case series. In January 1982, Senator Robert Dole successfully pushed through Congress a package of budget cuts and 'revenue enhancements' that included a ten percent withholding tax on interest and dividends. This case examines Dole's methods and the successful campaign by the American Bankers' Association (ABA) to get the interest withholding provision repealed. Part A describes how Dole got the legislation approved, the composition and interests of the ABA, and the situation in which its leadership found itself in 1982. Part B describes the ABA's advertising and letter-writing campaign, which created millions of individual correspondences with members of Congress. Part C describes the legislative maneuvering and the final repeal of the withholding tax.