Business Lobbyists Recount How CAFTA Was Won

By Kate Ackley
Roll Call Staff
Aug. 1, 2005, 12 a.m.

A week before the vote on the Central American Free Trade Agreement, several business groups passed the hat and raised almost $300,000 for an all-out, last-minute grass-roots effort. The result was that more than 18,000 calls from voters were patched through to a select group of conflicted Members.



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Stier: Detecting a Bad Breast Cancer Bill

July 1, 11:28 a.m.

Who could blame hundreds of Members of Congress for joining with a colleague and breast cancer survivor, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), in co-sponsoring legislation aimed at promoting breast cancer education? The problem, according to leading breast cancer scientists and advocacy groups, is the bill would do more harm than good. Read Full Article

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