She announced she would give up her own car — a Mercedes — and stop taking the fees for attending committee meetings.
And the speaker of the house announced that the fees for attending meetings would be cut to about $215.
It is easy for celebrities to command considerable fees for attending an event, and vastly more for endorsing a brand.
They also receive a retainer for committee service ranging from $1,000 to $8,000 depending on the committee and other fees for attending committee meetings.
Dodgy deals with cronies, soft loans for themselves, allegedly irregular salary and pension packages, inflated golden handshakes and overgenerous fees for attending rubber-stamp meetings are all being scrutinised.There are also differences in the laws that can be applied.
For students signaling an intention to practice in primary care, public policy could lower the cost of investing in such a career by reducing or even eliminating tuition and fees for attending medical school, as some policy analysts have proposed.
(These boards included many of the executives' friends and retirees keen to collect hefty fees for attending an occasional meeting and voting yes).
ADM received speaker honoraria and fees for attending advisory boards from GlaxoSmithKline, Gilead, Bristol-Myers-Squibb, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Abbott Virology, Tibotec.
Brian Buijsse declared support from California Walnut Commission (USA) for travel and accommodation fees for attending an expert meeting in 2012 and from General Mills Bell Institute of Health and Nutrition (USA) for travel and accommodation expenses and an honorarium for attending and delivering a presentation at an international conference in 2013.
