The Nation's Pulse/Democrat Power Couples
Borders, Rebecca
Democrat Power Couples by Rebecca Borders A fter Newt Gingrich's wife Marianne obtained a job as vice president of the Israel Export Development Company, Democrats were in an uproar. Clinton...
...They were married before he joined Congress, but you get the feeling that she wouldn't draw a salary even if she could...
...Schroeder now oversees international trade and development programs...
...Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex...
...From time to time I give myself permission to exercise some integrity with respect to my feelings," she said...
...Dorgan's clients include the Children's Television Workshop, the National Captioning Institute, and America's public television stations...
...served as the finance director for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee...
...Working behind the scenes in the drama was Sen...
...She's married to one senator and chief of staff to another...
...Dorgan's chief of staff, Lucy Calautti, who happens to be married to Sen...
...Finally, there is Deborah Dingell, wife of Rep...
...Bob Carr (D-Mich...
...T wo North Dakota couples are major players in Washington...
...who remains a registered lobbyist for General Motors...
...Bingaman was a partner in the Washington office of the Atlanta law firm of Powell, Goldstein, Frazer and Murphy...
...Daschle's role in the scandal...
...Anthony had long been involved in Washington politics before her appointment...
...Schroeder will have made some profitable business connections by the time the Clinton Administration is over...
...Thus Beth Kennedy, who was working as a scheduler for Rep...
...Clinton political consultant Paul Begala said, "When someone who was a city planner in Ohio gets hired as an expert in Middle East trade it raises eyebrows...
...Powell, Goldstein, Frazer and Murphy have lobbied for Hewlett Packard, Lockheed, the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, and the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (INTELSAT...
...We've always worked together," Mrs...
...Ruth Harkin, wife of Sen...
...When it comes to cashing in on political careers, Democratic couples, it seems, have a lot to teach Mr...
...introduced the Television Violence Report Card Act of 1995...
...0 ther spouses work on the Hill...
...Anthony's Little Rock, Arkansas clients, the Entergy Corporation and Systematics Information Systems, a division of Alltel, have been picked by Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown to join him on profitable foreign trade missions...
...Beryl Anthony (D.- Ark...
...Presumably, programs produced by the Children's Television Workshop would rank as the most non-violent and therefore gain valuable publicity and enormous goodwill under such an arrangement...
...When last seen, a glum Rep...
...Dorgan's wife, Kimberly Olson Dorgan, is a registered Washington lobbyist...
...Sidney's public relations and diplomatic skills have been well honed over the years...
...As head of the antitrust division, Mrs...
...Other clients include the American Hospital Association, American Insurance Association, American Trucking Association, Alltel Corporation, Entergy Corporation, and the Public Securities Association...
...Daschle have run into ethical problems concerning his intervention with federal regulators on behalf of a company which, not surprisingly, operates a small airline charter company...
...As the wife of former Rep...
...When Newt Gingrich was installed as Speaker in January, she was one of a handful of members who refused Rebecca Borders is the author of Beyond the Hill: A Directory of Congress from 1984 to 1993, Where Have All the Members Gone...
...Mrs...
...When the state's two Democratic U.S...
...Now that he's been defanged, you wonder whether Mrs...
...She's a power...
...Jeff Bingaman is a Democrat from New Mexico...
...is the deputy director of public liaison for the White House...
...Senator Wyche Fowler (D.-Ga...
...CI The American Spectator September 1995 55...
...Daschle's prior FAA experience was working as a weather observer while attending Kansas State University...
...as the special assistant to the commissioner on Children, Youth and Families for the Department of Health and Human Services...
...Anthony now works as a lobbyist and partner with the Washington office of the law firm of Winston and Strawn...
...John Dingell (D-Mich...
...Daschle to the Federal Aviation Administration as the deputy administrator, the number two post at the agency...
...S heila Anthony was the Clinton administration's assistant attorney general for legislative affairs before she resigned in early 1995...
...Bingaman did not file a recusal statement when she was appointed to the Justice Department...
...Bingaman also led the Justice Department's negotiations in the Microsoft computer antitrust case, personally negotiating with Microsoft chairman Bill Gates...
...Whitman and Ransom has represented a number of Japanese interests, including the Japan External Trade Relations Organization and the city of Osaka...
...University Press of America...
...The firm is registered as a foreign agent and current partners include former U.S...
...T om Daschle of South Dakota is the Senate Democratic leader...
...Yet on May 9, Dorgan, along with Sen...
...We met when he was mayor...
...Dorgan...
...She's definitely the brains behind Conrad...
...Prior to her appointment as assistant attorney general, Mrs...
...And, wouldn't you know it, she secured a prime political appointment for her husband in the Department of Agriculture...
...Daschle had pledged to recuse herself from issues that involved her husband...
...According to her official biography, Mrs...
...Other Clinton spousal appointees include Deborah Stark, wife of Rep...
...has a lot in common with Waters...
...In 1993, President Clinton appointed Mrs...
...Joseph Kennedy (D-Mass...
...Who has been "sold," Congresswoman Schroeder...
...senators, Byron Dorgan and Kent Conrad, worked hand-in-hand to defeat the Balanced Budget Amendment in February, they gained national media attention with their last minute posturing and deal-making...
...Brown headed the Democratic National Committee...
...Dingell was swearing in Newt Gingrich as Speaker...
...James W. Schroeder was appointed by President Clinton as a deputy undersecretary for farm and foreign agricultural services...
...Before joining the administration, he worked as an international trade attorney in the Washington office of Whitman and Ransom, a New York-based law firm...
...Sidney Williams, a former professional football player, was appointed ambassador to the Bahamas by Bill Clinton in 1994...
...According to her official biography, Mrs...
...According to the New York Times, government investigators are looking into Mrs...
...Kate Carr, wife of former Rep...
...Gary M. Baxter, an FAA inspector, has said that documents were destroyed to protect the Daschles...
...Robert Matsui (D-Calif...
...Rosa DeLauro (D.-Conn...
...Sen...
...He also represents the Hong Kong Trade Development Council...
...His wife, Anne K. Bingaman, was appointed by President Clinton to head the Justice Department's antitrust division...
...Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), is the powerful president of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation...
...Conrad...
...Bingaman has "served as antitrust counsel to an association of leading U.S...
...She's really something," Joseph Dill, editor of the Fargo Forum newspapers, told the Hill newspaper...
...It's been a very strong basis of our relationship...
...As the pollster for the 1992 Clinton campaign, Stanley Greenberg established himself as a top Democratic adviser...
...Bingaman and her office have not responded to requests for comment...
...Anthony was the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee while Mr...
...By contrast, Rep...
...But was it as laughable as a car salesman becoming an ambassador...
...It's laughable...
...before they were married, continues in that title and still draws a $36,000 annual salary...
...to stand when he entered the House chamber...
...And Mr...
...Doris Matsui, wife of Rep...
...however, fellow FAA officials have reported that she was a player in the case...
...Rep...
...For instance, she responded to Newt and the Contract With America by parading around the Capitol with a "sold" banner...
...He is married to Linda Hall Daschle, a former registered lobbyist for the American Association of Airport Executives, a trade association that rep54 The American Spectator September 1995 resents 800 airport managers and personnel...
...Both Senator and Mrs...
...Judy Bonior is a staff assistant in the office of her husband, House Minority Whip David Bonior (D-Mich...
...No one lobbied harder for Williams than California Rep...
...In 1992, the year he was elected to the Senate, Dorgan wrote on his financial disclosure form that "by agreement, [my wife] does not contact me, my office or those serving with me on committee in Congress in any work she does...
...The legislation, if passed, would provide for the secretary of commerce to award grants to universities to assess television violence...
...Pat Schroeder (D-Colo...
...I was not feeling any sense of pleasure or joy...
...Under House rules, members of Congress are allowed to hire spouses for their staff, but not to pay their salaries unless they were employed in the same office before the marriage...
...Vic Fazio (D.-Calif...
...The assessments, according to the legislative announcement press release, will "describe and categorize the nature and extent of violence in the program and identify the sponsor and sponsors of the programs covered under the assessment...
...Sen...
...Dingell's GM job is even worth her showing up...
...Her husband's nomination, of course, was a clear payoff to Waters for her early and crucial support of the 1992 Clinton campaign...
...Pete Stark (D-Calif...
...Maxine Waters...
...computer manufacturers...
...He is married to Rep...
...Judy Fazio, wife of Rep...
...Williams met with only mild opposition during his confirmation with the then-Democratic controlled Senate, even though, as one congressional aide told the Los Angeles Times, "The best justification that he has for being ambassador is that he traveled to the Bahamas on vacation...
...Still, Waters has her own sense of integrity...
...previously worked as the finance director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which was headed by her husband...
...Mrs...
...If I didn't work for him I'd never see him...
...Good work, Mrs...
...Dingell is the once-powerful chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which oversees many matters affecting the automotive industry...
...Because of the House rules, Mrs...
...Bonior may receive her $47,000 salary because she worked for Bonior before their marriage...
...Sanders said...
...Bingaman's clients have included Fortune 50 and 500 companies, plaintiff classes and state governments...
...She got him elected, and she ran Dorgan's campaign when he was elected to Congress...
...It was not until the fourth paragraph of her letter that Waters acknowledged that she happens to be married to Williams...
...In a letter to White House senior adviser Bruce Lindsey, she wrote: "This letter is to alert you of my support of Sidney Williams for the position of Ambassador to the Commonwealth of the Bahamas...
...Bernard Sanders, the Vermont socialist, employs his wife, Jane O'Meara Sanders, as his unpaid chief of staff...
...Anthony worked briefly as an assistant secretary of commerce in early 1993 before transferring to Justice...
...According to the Office of Government Ethics, Mrs...
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