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Republican leaders like Jack Kemp, Bill Bennett and Jeanne Kirkpatrick are beginning to get the picture. Their organization, Empower America, picks up where Kemp's verging-on-visionary HUD left off, devising free enterprise solutions to social dilemmas. Ventures like, that will do far more for the Republican Party than RNC chair Haley Barbour's Perot-modeled National Policy Forums. Activist conservatism is the future of the party...
...worried that Perot's advocacy group, United We Stand America, is a powerful weapon that he may aim at them whenever it suits his purpose. Dole has warned associates that the mercurial independent is a threat to the G.O.P.'s status as the focus of opposition to Clinton. William Bennett, like Dole a possible presidential candidate in 1996, says, "It's a big mistake for Republicans to legitimize Ross Perot, because sooner or later we'll have to delegitimize...
David Boren. Thorn-of-the-moment in Clinton's side, Boren, a conservative Democrat who represents the oil state of Oklahoma on the Senate Finance Committee, led last week's bipartisan Senate revolt against the Administration's tax plan. At a press conference he and three fellow rebels -- Democrat Bennett Johnston of Louisiana and Republicans John Danforth of Missouri and William Cohen of Maine -- unveiled a plan of their own. The so- called Boren-Danforth amendment features lower taxes and more spending cuts than the President's proposal, as well as a cap on entitlements spending. The Boren-Danforth bill...
Katherine had two things going for her besides pride: a long-term relationship with Leroy Bennett, the father of most of her children; and the support of her strong-willed cousin Nancy Bryant, who lived next door with her own large family. That meant that an adult was usually available to supervise the kids, an increasingly urgent task during the 1980s, when drug sellers began working Euclid Street...
While supporters of the amendment argued that gays seek special rights, Bennett said the law's purpose "is not special protection, but equal protection...