Word: whips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reason was the leadership vacuum in the House G.O.P. Newt Gingrich was out of the picture, and Speaker-elect Livingston was loath to guide impeachment proceedings, perhaps because he feared that his own extramarital affairs would be exposed. Control of the process had fallen to House whip Tom DeLay, the hardest of anti-Clinton hard-liners, who had ensured that moderates favoring censure had no place...
...Republican side, Lott is eager to get impeachment out of the way. But conservatives put him in his leadership post, and Senate majority whip Don Nickles of Oklahoma, another anti-Clinton hard-liner, is likely to play the same role in the Senate that DeLay played in the House--making sure the process is driven to the bitter end. After the impeachment vote, Lott issued a statement saying the date on which a trial would begin depended on how much time was needed for the President's lawyers to complete pretrial motions...
...that argument doesn't count for much with the guy who counts at the moment, a politician who has thrived despite taking career-killing risks. In 1989 DeLay managed the campaign of Edward Madigan for the job of House Republican whip against an upstart rival named Newt Gingrich. Gingrich won by just two votes. Five years later, after the Republicans took over Congress, DeLay brazenly challenged and easily defeated Gingrich's handpicked candidate and best friend, Bob Walker, for the position he now holds. DeLay defended the Speaker during Gingrich's ethics investigation and helped him narrowly win re-election...
...helped that DeLay was considered one of the best vote counters Congress had ever seen. Being an effective whip means knowing intuitively in which direction every member is leaning on every critical vote--and what it will take to get their support. Sometimes courtliness is called for, other times thinly veiled threats. "I hope that I am seen more by my members as a whip who grows the vote rather than forces it," says DeLay. "I spend a lot of time talking to members and trying to take care of their problems." But DeLay adds, "Politics is about rewards...
...fancy products--stamped with the names of the world's finest chefs is just the latest form of gourmet porn. The consumer gets to fantasize that with aids like a dollop of Jean-Georges's special tamarind paste or one of Ducasse's $275 copper saucepans, one can whip oneself and one's guests to the heights of culinary ecstasy. And for the chefs--brash, dashing and at the pinnacle of their artistic careers--their extra-kitchen activities are about creating, and extending, their brand names in an increasingly crowded marketplace. Being a chef today, explains the French-born Vongerichten...