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...Lloyd Bentsen...
Washington -- Treasury Secretary LLOYD BENTSEN, who has been on the sidelines of the health-care debate for more than a year, has quietly begun to sound out Democratic elders and health-care interest groups in the event Congress can't pass legislation this summer. Bentsen has never been a fan of the grandiose Clinton scheme, and may help cut a deal if the committee chairpeople on Capitol Hill can't do it themselves...
...those who criticize him for having been too accommodating to the White House, Greenspan can say it has not always brought him peace. Indeed, the Fed had to spend much of last winter fending off a proposal by Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen that would have created a superagency to regulate banks and thus usurp much of the Fed's supervisory authority. (The original plan is virtually dead.) Greenspan has also had to contend with some of Congress's most powerful members, who have long chafed at the secretive behavior of the Fed and in the past year have drafted legislation...
...Altman probably felt confident that he knew the rules of the game when he joined Clinton last year. As Jimmy Carter's Assistant Treasury Secretary, Altman helped engineer ) the Chrysler bailout. Thanks to his talent and good luck (he and Clinton became friends in college), Altman is now Lloyd Bentsen's understudy. He is also acting head of the Resolution Trust Corporation, an assignment he accepted to fill a temporary vacancy in the RTC's chairmanship. This is the chore that has sullied...
...accompanied the President to a summit in Moscow in January, and, more recently, traveled to Beijing with Secretary of the Treasury Lloyd Bentsen. "It's a very heavy schedule," Nye said. "I've been so busy that I haven't really spent much time thinking about Harvard...