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Acknowledging the political impossibility of its task, the bipartisan presidential commission charged with figuring out how to reform taxation and reduce the growth of federal entitlements ended its 10 months of study with no agreement and no plan of action. The commission, headed by Senators Bob Kerrey and John Danforth, had been set up as part of the 1993 budget agreement...
...orphanages for poor children -- "governments don't raise children," he said, "parents do" -- but stressed again his plan for a time limit on benefits. Earlier in the week he met at the White House with Governors from both parties to talk about welfare reform, then announced plans for a bipartisan meeting of Governors and mayors next month to help refine a plan. That could not only help Clinton regain a leadership role on the issue, but also provide an opportunity for him to drive a wedge between radical House Republicans and more cautious Republican Governors...
...Entitled? A bipartisan commission says welfare...
...subsidies that upper-income Americans receive for retirement, health care, mortgage interest and farming. Relatively modest cuts in these giveaways, and in others for such favored industries as mining and oil drilling, could save the Treasury more than $40 billion a year, according to expert testimony gathered by the Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform. The panel is scheduled to submit recommendations to the President this week. But the commission's chairman, Senator Bob Kerrey, a Nebraska Democrat, already stirred the pot last Friday when he and panel vice chairman John Danforth of Missouri, a retiring Republican Senator, proposed...
Women are less than half as likely as men to consider running for political office, according to a survey released today by a bipartisan women's group. In the poll of 1,000 voters, the National Women's Political Caucus found that 18 percent of men would consider running for office, but that only 8 percent of women would. Why? Pollster Celinda Lake, who conducted the survey, says women are less likely to feel qualified or simply didn't feel they know how to run -- in addition to worries about raising money, finding time away from their families and exposing...