Word: contract
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tourney 12 times in 20 years, and she won three NCAA titles between 1987 and 1991. Back in '75, she was Pat Head, and she had to drive the team bus. Now, Summitt is so cherished that she earns an annual salary of $118,000, not counting a shoe contract, a car and her own radio show. There was even talk last year that she should take over the Tennessee men's team...
...LAST THURSDAY, CONGRESSMAN John Boehner took his seat at the head of a conference-room table a few steps from the Rotunda, beneath the Capitol dome. As the fourth-ranking Republican in the House and a field general in the war to pass the "Contract with America," Boehner (pronounced Bay-ner) looked at home. But his lieutenants, who were arrayed around the table strewn with coffee cups and cigarette butts, were not so natural a fit. They were not fellow lawmakers or even congressional staff members. They were lobbyists representing some of the richest special interests in the country. Still...
...leadership has attached its fortunes to private lobbyists, and is relying on their far-flung influence to pass its agenda. Boehner's Thursday Group is the top of the pyramid of that sophisticated effort, serving as command central for a series of multimillion-dollar campaigns on behalf of the Contract with America. The stakes of the enterprise-and the potential rewards for the lobbyists-are huge. "If we don't do the contract, we don't have to worry about doing other kinds of bills," Boehner says ominously. As for the lobbyists on his "team," he adds, "We know...
...Republicans think the alliance is a good idea. Some are worried that in its zeal to pass the contract, the leadership might be snuggling too close to the special interests that the all-important swing voters abhor. If the contract's tax cuts overtly favor corporations and the wealthy, says G.O.P. Representative Steve Schiff of New Mexico, "it will make us a sitting duck for those who argue that our party has capitulated to our [lobbying] allies." Democrats are already making the argument. "The Republicans are too close to business interests," charges Charles Schumer of New York. "That is their...
...shows no sign of backing down. To the contrary, his Thursday Group is busy forming new coalitions and keeping its old ones intact. And that is no small feat. A Thursday Group lobbyist has been chosen to head the lobbying effort for each of the main provisions in the contract, ranging from tort reform to tax relief. In turn, the chairperson puts together an elaborate coalition of other lobbying groups. The biggest so far is the tax-relief coalition, led by Motley, which has more than 100 members and six task forces to handle policy, communications, vote counting, grass-roots...