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...next two days that's more important than lobbying Congress." Working from White House lists of undecided lawmakers, Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy telephoned farm-state Representatives. Defense Secretary Les Aspin worked Congressmen with major military installations in their states. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt buttonholed Western lawmakers. Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen reasoned with the Texas delegation. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor concentrated on Californians. During the next two days, the Clinton Administration bought, rented and bartered for every vote it could find. One Cabinet officer described his mission plainly: "Find out what these Congressmen want, and if possible give it to them...
...Lloyd Bentsen, TREASURY SECRETARY...
...Kent Conrad of North Dakota -- declined to sign on to the amendment. Thus while Boren may be able to muster enough Democratic votes to join with Republicans in forcing Clinton to change his plan, there is little chance that the Boren-Danforth proposal can pass. Said Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, a former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee: "The Boren-Danforth amendment will never make it out of the Finance Committee." What it could do, however, is be a starting point for negotiations. One possible compromise would be to substitute a gasoline tax -- unpopular as that would...
Daniel Moynihan. Having succeeded Bentsen as Finance Committee chairman, Moynihan, the former Harvard professor who was a "new Democrat" while Bill Clinton was still in Yale Law School, has fired a few broadsides of his own at the Clinton White House. Now, though, he may be able to help salvage the President's deficit-reduction package. Moynihan is passionately opposed to entitlement caps, and charges that the Boren-Danforth amendment would cut the "earned benefits" of more than 15 million Social Security recipients...
...task force again over the weekend -- and not a minute too soon. He will have to preside over something of a split between the forces of the left, led by Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala, and those of the right, led by Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen. "Given their druthers," said an official, "the HHS crowd would rather have a ((government-run)) single-payer system with extreme regulation and cost controls. The economic types are worried about the economy, and so they want no cost controls and no regulation. I'm not going to deny there are tensions...