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The disclosure that the rail companies are aiming to pay for face time with most of the New York State Legislature could not come at a more awkward time, just as the political world is buzzing over the widening scandal surrounding the disgraced Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff. At a meeting of the state Lobbying Commission, which oversees lobbyists and their clients, the executive director, David M. Grandeau, called it the kind of loophole that allows the Jack Abramoff's of the world to operate. But the commission is limited in what it can do.