Word: breaux
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...John Breaux (D.-Louisiana...
...candidate to succeed Mitchell as majority leader, his departure set off an immediate scramble. Thomas Daschle of South Dakota discreetly worked the phones, gauging potential support. White House insiders would be happy with Daschle or West Virginia's Jay Rockefeller. And some Senate staff members mentioned Louisiana's John Breaux, a prominent opponent of the Clinton health-care package...
Others said the Roundtable's action was not so much a vote for Cooper as it was a political hit on Clinton. Even John Breaux, the Louisiana Senator who co-sponsored the Cooper bill, told TIME he had never spoken with anyone at the Roundtable about his bill. "I'd like to say it's the most critical thing that's happened so far in the health-care debate," said Breaux, "but I can't, because it's not true." Junior White House officials spread out to say, as one put it, that "we never intended to win this thing...
...test of White House strength, the Business Roundtable, a group of business leaders concerned with public policy, will decide this week whether or not to support the more moderate alternative to the Clinton health-care plan crafted by Representative Jim Cooper and Senator John Breaux. The White House has no hope of convincing the executives to back the Clinton plan, but it will try to dissuade them from endorsing Cooper-Breaux. Given the Roundtable's influence in Congress, the stakes are high, so Administration officials -- perhaps even President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton -- will lobby heavily...
...President's 1,300-page plan. White House economics chief Robert Rubin and Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman telephoned insurance-company CEOs at Prudential, Chubb, American International Group and CNA to urge them not to endorse the rival plan, backed by Representative Jim Cooper of Tennessee and Senator John Breaux of Louisiana. But the Administration's pre-emptive strike met with resistance. Late Friday an informal straw poll of the Roundtable's policy committee turned up broad support for Cooper-Breaux...