Word: bentsens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bill Zeliff (R-N.H.) demanded that former Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen explain why he apparently did nothing to deter federal agents under his jurisdiction from using tear gas at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, even after his deputy, Roger Altman, had warned of "the risks of a tragedy" in a memo. "Isn't this an alarm crying out for some responsible action?" Zeliff asked. "Didn'tRoger Altmansound the alarm?" Bentsen responded: "The responsibility at that point was the Justice Department and the FBI. That was their jurisdiction. I had other responsibilities to attend to. I thought...
...pedestrian mall, CNN reported today. The six-member board, seeking toprotect the President from the threat of car bombs, has put together a classified list of recommendations that are being circulated among government agencies and members of Congress, CNN said. The panel was established by ex-Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen after an airplane crashed into the White House last September. In October, 26-year-old Francisco Martin Duran shot 27 rounds of ammunition across the north side of the building from the Pennsylvania Avenue sidewalk. Last week , he was convicted of attempting to assassinate the President...
...Robert Rubin as Secretary of the Treasury today by a vote of 99-0 (Senator Jay Rockefeller was absent). Rubin, a former co-chairman of Wall Street's Goldman Sachs, has earned bipartisan respect for his performance as chairman of President Clinton's National Economic Council. He succeeds Lloyd Bentsen, a former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, who resigned the Treasury post last month to return to private business in Texas...
Despite support on some issues from Budget Director Alice Rivlin, the Reich faction seemed outgunned, at least for the moment, by an unlikely alliance of go-slow conservatives and go-slow liberals. Chief of staff Leon Panetta, departing Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen and his designated replacement Robert Rubin, warned against rhetoric that might make the Administration appear "antibusiness." Panetta told TIME he gets "nervous" about heated rhetoric "on the left or the right...
President Clinton accepted the resignation of Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen and nominated former Goldman Sachs investment banker Robert E. Rubin to succeed him. Rubin, who currently wields considerable influence as head of the White House National Economic Council, is expected to be confirmed by the Senate with little trouble...