If Ms Rousseff does manage to whip Congress back into line using a mix of threats, promises and appeals to self-interest, her reward could be cleaner politics.
Apparently Marissa Meyer is trying to whip the company back into shape and wants to reign in employees who have flexible working arrangements and work from home.
" And Rep. Roy Blunt, the House Republican whip, appeared to back up Feingold's assessment, saying the process of granting immunity will be "a formality.
What the chief whip has now said was that she is now back in parliament and she needs to demonstrate that she's got to earn her way back into her colleagues' trust and affection.
The Tory group's chief whip is now leading an investigation and is expected to report back on Christmas Eve, and Mr Sprason's fate will be decided on 2 January.
The group - foreign affairs and defence spokesman Menzies Campbell, chief whip Paul Tyler, campaigns chief Nick Harvey and social security select committee chairman Archy Kirkwood - are expected to back the same candidate.
It has failed to do so since the Tories' coalition partners have failed to back the man who is the government's - and not just the Conservatives' - Chief Whip.