Word: bentsens
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...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...
...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...
...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...