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...Ending the Free Ride For decades, ranchers and miners could count on the U.S. government to provide cheap access to public lands. No more. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt bucked opposition from Western politicians and persuaded the President and Congress to boost low grazing and mining fees...
...Bill Clinton was preparing to fill a vacancy on the court, he called Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, to get his views on who might make a suitable choice. Hatch urged Clinton to forgo one of his options, former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt, who Hatch thought would prove too hard to get confirmed. Instead Hatch promoted two others: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was eventually approved, and Stephen Breyer, who was appointed a year later. What conservatives tend to remember about that episode is that both Justices became stalwarts of the court's liberal...
...distinguish himself from old-line, constituency-centered liberalism, what Kevin Phillips contemptuously calls "reactionary liberalism." That might have served some purpose in 1984. But what is the point now? Carter and Mondale are no more. Kennedy is gone, and even he supports Gramm-Rudman. We are all--Biden, Bradley, Babbitt, Gephardt and Robb--neoliberals now. There are no paleoliberals left, unless Mario Cuomo's principled disinclination to issue ostentatious rejections of the "past" tempts some to make the charge...
...this year Democrats are under siege in the West and South, the regions likely to benefit from reapportionment. In California, bland but durable Republican incumbent George Deukmejian looks unbeatable, and G.O.P. candidates are strong in New Mexico and Oregon. Three Western states are losing popular Democratic incumbents--Bruce Babbitt of Arizona, Ed Herschler of Wyoming and Richard Lamm of Colorado--leaving Republican challengers with at least an even chance of victory...
Even with it, Arizona is hardly awash in excess water. Indeed, Babbitt sought to ensure that Arizona's liquid riches would not be squandered, by winning passage in 1980 of the nation's most stringent water-management program. The law discourages the state's farmers from using CAP water to expand production of heavily irrigated cotton and citrus crops by requiring the growers to forgo an amount of groundwater equal to their use of the new supply. The measure also provides for the sale of water rights by farmers to developers and local water systems, thus promoting growth without creating...