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...Washington that the progression from shock to anger was most obvious. Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen admitted to being "deeply troubled" at conflicting statements on whether the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms knew Koresh had been tipped off before its initial February raid; ATF head Stephen Higgins promptly expressed a willingness to resign. And during a hearing in the House, Michigan Congressman John Conyers Jr. exploded at Attorney General Janet Reno, calling the government's actions "a profound disgrace to law enforcement" and implying she was trying to "rationalize" the deaths. With emotion, Reno responded, "I feel more strongly about...
...will be much more controversial and tougher to carry out. It calls for a rollback of greenhouse- gas emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000. The announcement represents a major victory for Gore, whose support for the measure met resistance at the last minute from Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen and Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary. They argued that the effects of emissions controls on U.S. industry had not been studied sufficiently, a position reminiscent of the one the Bush Administration took last year when it torpedoed a similar plan at the Earth Summit...
...political diversity as well as racial. The president didn't include a single Perot supporter among his Cabinet appointees. Most were old-line liberals, and only a few (Bruce Babbitt at Interior, Richard R. Riley at Education, Robert B. Reich at Labor, and possibly Les Aspin and Lloyd Bentsen at Defense and Treasury) could be considered New Democrats, who appeal more to Perot supporters...
...pitch is simple: Play along with us, and we can make good things happen for you. Oppose us, and . . . well, watch out. Delivering the first part of the message, Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen on March 12 welcomed into his airy office executives of seven major oil companies: Amoco, Ashland, Chevron, Conoco, Phillips, Shell and Unocal. "We're willing to adjust our fuel tax in ways that will help you," said Bentsen. He noted that his department had already promised to revise the way it proposed to collect a new energy tax to favor U.S. oil refiners over foreign competitors...
...what of those businessmen who do not go along? Bentsen rather ominously noted that he had not invited "some members of the oil industry who had expressed public opposition" to Clinton's energy tax. He went no further, but another senior Administration official observes that "if they oppose us, every industry knows there is a price to pay." Several lobbyists say their clients are spooked by the prospect that unless they cooperate with the White House, they could suffer the fate of drug companies, whose stocks have been hammered in part because of criticism from the President and his wife...