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...President, who elevated two of them to the bench. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg may be in the toughest position of all. As a former women's-rights litigator and a Supreme Court moderate, she is certainly a potential Jones vote. But with the Washington rumor mill saying Clinton will appoint her Chief Justice if Rehnquist retires, it could be a hard time for any judge in her position to rule against the President in a major case...
Unfortunately, the answer to both of these questions is probably yes. We have progressed to the point where the president can appoint a female secretary of state, but not to the point where her every move will not be scrutinized from a gender-focused perspective...
Nevertheless, the outcry prompted Governor Tommy Thompson to appoint a special panel of child-care providers, elected officials and policymakers to reconsider the co-pay provisions. Last week, on its recommendation, Wisconsin revised the plan. Day-care co-payments will be calculated primarily according to income and number of children, not the cost of care. And a family's co-payment obligation will be capped at 16% of gross income. To help close the spending gap between this formula and the earlier one, Thompson will use an extra $25 million in federal money for 1997 that the state had earned...
President Clinton did so when he said "Am I proud that I got a chance to appoint the first woman Secretary of State?--You bet I am." But, as soon as he acknowledges that her womanhood is a part of her, he must explain that his decision is not an affirmative action project designed to attract more women voters. "But that is not why I appointed her," he added. No, it is not why she has become Secretary of State. She was chosen because, as Clinton explained, she "has the instincts, the intelligence, the skill and the strength to lead...
...help mend our broken democracy; out-of-control money-power moves us closer to being a plutocracy. The most thoughtful and eloquent promoter of campaign-finance reform is retiring New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley. Come January 1997, one of the best things President Clinton could do would be to appoint Bradley to head a bipartisan commission to come up with ideas for reforming political campaigns and their financing. Democracy demands that our government leaders serve the public-interest majority, not the special-interest minority. PAUL WHITELEY SR. Louisville, Kentucky Via E-mail...