Word: contract
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...also been more effective. Thanks in large measure to the Thursday Group, the G.O.P. is close to getting its 10-point contract through the House in the first hundred days of the session. A reason: the lobbyists have left nothing to chance. During consideration of each measure, they bought television, radio and newspaper ads, faxed "action alerts" to their members to stir up calls and letters and, for the tax bill, have even arranged a bulletin board on the Internet. At one point recently the barrage was so intense that Frank Coleman of the Chamber of Commerce was besieged...
...rougher days are ahead. The contract will be harder to pass in the Senate, where most of its provisions face Democratic filibusters. That strain could tear the lobbyists apart. The fealty of the Christian Coalition will be sorely tested, for example, if the Senate, as expected, pares the group's most cherished proposal: a new $500-a-child tax credit. The Home Builders would also revolt if Senator Bob Packwood, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, makes good on his threat to place new limits on the mortgage-interest deduction...
...level State Department officials informed of the broad nature of the talks. As a result, just after Conoco and the Iranians reached their agreement this month--but before the Houston-based company had sought approval from senior U.S. officials or board members of DuPont, its corporate parent--the contract flared into a political and diplomatic incident as unwelcome to Conoco as a fire in an oil well. It was left to President Clinton to put out the flames by issuing an order that barred all U.S. companies from helping Iran develop its energy resources. Yet even as the President acted...
...hand of Iran," but recused himself from involvement as soon as he learned his former law firm took the case. No one was more put out by the Administration's sudden get-tough attitude than Conoco's Nicandros. Rushing to Washington on March 10, he found his $1 billion contract with Iran under attack from all sides. Not only was Christopher loudly opposing the deal, but Alfonse D'Amato, who chairs the Senate Banking Committee, was using it to escalate his two-month-old crusade for a virtual halt to all American commerce with Iran. While U.S. oil firms have...
There was broad agreement in the Administration to kill the Conoco contract as an example to Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev, whom the Secretary is to meet in Geneva this week. There, Christopher will urge Kozyrev to stop Russia from delivering two nuclear reactors to Iran, which the U.S. fears could be used to help develop nuclear weapons...