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After 35 years in Washington, Dole has an astonishingly small circle. He has a coterie of old friends, including Democratic Party viceroy Bob Strauss and Archer Daniels Midland Co. chairman Dwayne Andreas, but he does not seek their counsel. Other than his wife Elizabeth, who is an ad hoc adviser on nearly everything, Dole's inner circle is made up of Senators Pete Domenici of New Mexico, John McCain of Arizona and Bob Bennett of Utah, and even they say they are not sure what he absorbs. He taps experts on specific policy matters when he needs them--including...
...what is that compared with Dole attacking the capitalists? A man whose overriding concern always seemed to be keeping the world safe for Archer-Daniels-Midland now talks like a Bolshevik. This is beyond living amoebas...
Most of the time, contributions don't go directly to a candidate--that would be bribery--but to a candidate's many puppet organizations. Thus Archer Daniels Midland, one of Dole's largest lifetime donors, gave $900,000 to the Republican National Committee between 1991 and 1994, plus $200,000 to Dole's PAC, Campaign America, and his think tank, the Better America Foundation...
...welfare reform, pledging to work with congressional Republicans "to enact real, bipartisan welfare reform." Lacking the votes to override Clinton's veto, his 12th, the reaction from Republican congressional leaders was anything but sanguine. "He must now demonstrate what he is for," House Ways and Means chairman Bill Archer (R-Tex.) said. "No vague statement of principles. No unkept promises. I expect a complete bill, nothing less will do." The GOP reaction is mostly posturing, notes TIME's James Carney. "The Republicans fully expected this veto and are trying to use it to paint Clinton as abandoning welfare reform...
House Ways and Means chairman Bill Archer sent off a stern letter to Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin warning him of a "constitutional and legal crisis" between the branches if Rubin continues to jigger the federal books without congressional approval. So far, the Treasury Secretary has foiled the G.O.P., which has refused to raise the federal debt limit until it gets a budget deal, by making a series of deft accounting moves that have kept the debt just under the authorized ceiling of $4.9 trillion...