Chart: Mrs. Daschle's Clients

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Chart: Mrs. Daschle's Clients

Linda Hall Daschle, wife of Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D.-S.D.), works as a lobbyist for the firm of Baker, Donelson, Bearman and Caldwell. According to lobbying reports filed by law with the Secretary of the Senate, Mrs. Daschle lobbied on behalf of the corporations listed below. Several, including Loral, Boeing and United Technologies, have ranked among the top federal contractors.

Example: Company (Years Served by Mrs. Daschle) Fees Paid to Mrs. Daschle's Firm** Lobbying Issues of this client.

American Airlines (1997-2001)* $1,260,000*** Various airline bills, post-Sept. 11 airline legislation.

Northwest Airlines (1997-2001)

$870,000

Lobbied post-Sept. 11 airline legislation, sought help in settling a labor dispute; airline security, air traffic measures in Congress, and noise pollution laws.

Loral Space and Communications, Ltd. (2000-2001)

$740,000

Sought from Daschle’s lobbying firm "consultation and advice related to commercial space matters." In January 2002, according to the Washington Times, "Loral paid a $14 million fine to the State Department, ending a five year investigation into charges the company illegally helped China to improve its long range missiles through satellite deals."

United Technologies Corp. (1999-2002)

$640,000

A major government defense contractor that manufactures jet engines, United Technologies lobbied for airline legislation after Sept. 11.

Schering-Plough (1999-2001)

$470,000

Seeking to extend its patent on Claritin, protecting the allergy drug’s multi-billion-dollar market from cheaper, generic alternative drugs.

L-3 Communications (1997-2001)

$440,000

The Washington Post (Nov. 18) reported that L-3 developed an airport bomb

detection device in October 2000. Writes the Post: " ‘Airlines ‘didn't want them

because they didn't work,’ said a former top FAA security official...So L-3 took its case to Capitol Hill...hired lobbyists Albert Randall... and Linda Hall Daschle...The connections apparently paid off. Today the FAA is buying dozens of the machines, under an unusually explicit directive from Congress: Wording inserted in last year's federal transportation budget orders the FAA to purchase one L-3 machine for every model purchased from [competitor] InVision."

Boeing (1998-2001) $440,000 Lobbied post-Sept. 11 airline legislation, transportation appropriations bills, and bankruptcy reform.

American Trucking Association (1999-2000) $240,000 Department of Transportation appropriations bill, 1999 and 2000.

Cleveland Hopkins Int’l Airport (2000-2001) $180,000 Lobbied post-Sept. 11 airline legislation.

ICF-Kaiser (1997-1998) $160,000 This engineering and consulting company lobbied DOT appropriations bills and Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act reauthorization.

American Assn. Of Airport Executives (1998-2001) $120,000 Lobbied various airline bills, including post-Sept. 11 airline legislation. Mrs. Daschle once served as the Association’s president.

Safe Passage International (1998) $60,000 This security guard training company lobbied the reauthorization of the Airport Improvement Program in 1998, as well as DOT appropriations bills.

Pacificorp (1998) $60,000 Energy and Water Development Appropriations.

Dallas-Fort Worth Airport (2000) $60,000 Lobbied a Senate bill to improve U.S. airports.

Centennial Airport (2001) $50,000 Lobbied for federal airport safety grants and Airport Improvement Program grants.

Shaw and Associates (2001) $30,000 "General matters relating to commercial spaceports."

Intelli-Check (2001) $20,000 Lobbied after Sept. 11 to inform government officials of possible anti-terror applications of its technology.

American Concrete and Pavement Association (1999-2000)| Under $20,000 Lobbied on the Air Transportation Improvement Act of 1999.

Total Fees Paid to Mrs. Daschle’s Firm for her Projects: $5,860,000

Notes: * With the exception of a termination report for United Technologies Corp., 2002 forms have not yet been filed. ** Mrs. Daschle was not the only lobbyist working for these clients on behalf of her firm. *** Federal lobbying reports allow rounding to the nearest $20,000, and so all figures are estimates.

Source: Secretary of the Senate ________________

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[blackdog]

It was announced yesterday that Northworst, Delta, and United are asking to become a consortium. They still propose to be autonomous but want to access each others routes. They also want to universally ticket. You will know who you are flying when you get to the gate.

Of course the airlines not paying to Daschles wife and her firm are not included in this proposal. Congress will have to vote on this as it will be an unfair monopoly.

[Howlin]

FYI.

[Free the USA]

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[Cicero]

Special attention should be given to this item:

Loral Space and Communications, Ltd. (2000-2001)

$740,000

Bernie Schwartz of Loral a) made the single biggest campaign contribution to clinton's 1996 reelection campaign; b) gave the Communist Chinese the critical information they needed to make their MIRVed ICBMs work; c) gave clinton still another donation to make up for the money the DNC was forced to give back to the Chinese Communist intelligence agency when it came to light.

These missiles are now targeted at LA and other American cities.

The airline lobbying was also connected with Al Gore's decision to reverse himself and kill an airport security measure that would have gone into effect a year before 9/11 and might have prevented it.