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...Lamar Alexander, Secretary of Education in the Bush Administration, looks like he's trying for the 1996 G.O.P. nomination. Pete du Pont, the ex-Governor of Delaware, challenged Bush in the primaries in 1988, as did Donald Rumsfeld, Gerald Ford's Secretary of Defense; and Congresswoman Pat Schroeder was an undeclared candidate in 1988. Given this pattern of presidential ambition among the '74 selectees, we should not be surprised if Robert Gottlieb, the former editor of the New Yorker, or Saul Steinberg, the onetime greenmail virtuoso, begins showing up at lunch counters in New Hampshire next year, chatting with...
...known in the 13th District as "The Vote," which designates Margolies-Mezvinsky's vote on President Clinton's budget package. Though she had promised her constituents--many of whom are wealthy Republicans--that she would vote against any tax increase, the congresswoman voted for the Clinton budget. Although the plan achieved significant deficit reduction, it was widely opposed by her constituency because it would raise income taxes for the rich and for affluent Social Security recipients...
...bishops' counterproposal -- that abortion should be made a "supplemental" benefit for which women could pay extra -- would be a step backward for pro-choicers, most of whose insurance companies routinely finance the services. Says Colorado Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder: "We are totally opposed to women getting private insurance for their private parts...
...documentary does force some of its claims. It implies, for example, that when F.D.R. scribbled the words FILE, TAKE NO ACTION on a 1939 letter from a Congresswoman urging him to support a bill that would have allowed 20,000 Jewish children to enter the country outside the immigration quotas, he was referring to the bill rather than simply indicating the letter should not be answered. However, America and the Holocaust is well grounded in showing the extent to which anti-Semitism was a part of the American way a half-century ago. Immigration laws had the effect of preventing...
...Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, a Pennsylvania Democrat, that if she voted for his budget bill he would visit her district for a conference on entitlement spending; Margolies-Mezvinsky then cast one of the deciding vote in favor of the bill. The conference will take place on Dec. 13, and the Congresswoman's office says Clinton will give a speech and moderate an in-depth discussion. A White House official, however, says Clinton will "deliver remarks" and "participate"-- but no more...