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...power to give Dole's on-the-spot approval was his chief of staff, Sheila Burke, 44, a former registered nurse -- and former liberal-leaning Democrat. By virtue of her power to speak for the majority leader and negotiate on his behalf, Burke is the most powerful woman on Capitol Hill -- with a chance to hold even greater power in the White House if her boss becomes the next President. The remarkable thing about Burke's working relationship with Dole is that she enjoys the complete trust of a man who does not offer it easily. And she possesses...
While Waco andWhitewater hearingscompete for the Capitol Hill spotlight, lawmakers have managed to find a place on the broadcast agenda for another justice and Treasury department probe: the "Good Ol' Boy" hearings. Senate Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who convened the inquiry today, said sealed affidavits claimed rape and narcotics use may have occurred at one of the "Good Ol' Boys Roundups," an annual gathering staged for federal, state and local law enforcement officers since 1980 in rural Tennessee. Making matters worse, two black agents ofthe Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, one retired and one active, depicted Roundup...
...Senators Carol Mosely Braun and Paul Wellstone courageously blocked the $16 billion recission bill scheduled to become law this week, official Washington made a belated effort to cover the immediate harm which such cutbacks will inflict on the poor and elderly. Yet the spectacle of serious advocacy on Capitol Hill for the disadvantaged may have distracted the press from the larger story behind conservatives' blitzkrieg attacks on American social programs. The Contract with America represents not merely a Republican effort to enact conservative ideology, but also a strategy to permanently entrench Republican majorities through a systematic effort to cripple political...
...Patrick announced that Clinton would not "be intimidated" by aSupreme Court rulingthat jeopardizes programs that award federal contracts to minority businesses. "The Administration, through the president's speech, is making clear that we favoraffirmative actionwithout hype, without fear and without apology," Patrick said during a minority business summit on Capitol Hill. If the programs can't survive the Court's tough standards, he added, they "can, and should, be modified so that they meet that challenge...
...about a premium tax to finance teaching functions. Others have suggested imposing such a surtax on all insurance premiums. Says Bruce Kelly, the director of government relations at Mayo: "We endorse a set-aside program to fund research and teaching.'' But a delegation of teaching-hospital administrators who visited Capitol Hill in mid-May, sensing the draconian political climate, made only an exceedingly modest plea: if Medicare funding is cut, say, 13%, O.K., cut us 13% too -- but no more...