Word: sheila
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...woman with the power to give Dole's on-the-spot approval was his chief of staff, Sheila Burke, 44, a former registered nurse -- and former liberal-leaning Democrat. By virtue of her power to speak for the majority leader and negotiate on his behalf, Burke is the most powerful woman on Capitol Hill -- with a chance to hold even greater power in the White House if her boss becomes the next President. The remarkable thing about Burke's working relationship with Dole is that she enjoys the complete trust of a man who does not offer it easily...
...Health and Human Services. It is nothing short, says Burke, of "an orchestrated effort to get Dole to remove me from my job." Dole says that will not happen and bristles at suggestions that she somehow controls him. "I don't know if any of these people know Sheila or know what she does,'' he told Time. "She doesn't have any agenda, as far as I know, except carrying out the Republican agenda...
...latest mood swings among movement conservatives, implied last month that Burke's brand of "militant feminism is the heart of the welfare problem." And, of course, comparisons with the pre-eminent woman of influence in Washington are inevitable: "If the American people like Hillary Clinton, they will love Sheila Burke," said Andrea Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition...
...bargain over the Clinton plan long after most Republicans had turned against it. Some others around Washington suggest she was never committed to sweeping reform, but kept Dole identified with the idea to prevent Republicans from looking like diehard supporters of the existing system in the fall elections. "Sheila Burke was the Republican executioner of Hillary Clinton's health-care bill," insists Democrat Lawrence O'Donnell, who was then the Finance Committee's top staff member. "I saw the health-care saga last year as Hillary versus Sheila, and anyone who put their money on Hillary was crazy...
...Gramm for President, credits Dole's chief of staff with rescuing the Arizona Senator's hard-line proposal for a line-item veto from such formidable adversaries as Budget Committee chairman Pete Domenici. "One way of getting your point across to Bob Dole is getting your point across to Sheila, but that doesn't mean that she directs him. It means that he can rely on her," McCain says...