Word: democratizing
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Last week the White House finally got Moynihan's message: "We were running out of time," explained an Administration official. "It's time to make this thing happen." The new vehicle, called a "trigger," was proposed by Louisiana Senator John Breaux, a moderate Democrat who is developing a reputation as a breaker of logjams. Breaux wants to postpone the employer mandate for small companies until the end of 1997; in the meantime new subsidies and tax incentives would encourage small businesses to insure their workers. If small companies, defined as those with 25 employees or less, failed to insure...
...outcry over soaring charges has reached Congress, where Massachusetts Democrat Joseph Kennedy, who chairs a House subcommittee on consumer credit, will hold hearings next week. "We're seeing a dramatic rise in bank fees across the country," Kennedy says. As a result, "we want the best possible disclosure. We have truth in lending; maybe we should have truth in fees...
...domestic-policy battles of this Administration, none is more politically incendiary than taking money away from mothers with children. The President needs to define himself as a new kind of Democrat yet preserve the liberal base he will need to pass his health-care bill. For Congress the challenge is to show that it is capable of reversing a disaster of its own making. Meanwhile, more than half the states, tired of waiting for Washington, have started a revolution of their own. Virtually everything in Clinton's plan is already being tried somewhere. The basic principles of encouraging regular work...
...campaign, when his pollsters monitored the responses to commercials promising a drastic revolution, the response was off the charts. One White House aide and campaign veteran estimates that 40% of Clinton's paid advertising mentioned ending welfare. It formed the basis for Clinton's claim to be a New Democrat. Middle-class voters, argues Al From of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, "just never expected to hear a Democrat say, 'You can stay on welfare for two years, but then you have...
Sounding like the "new" Democrat he portrayed himself as on the campaign trail, President Clinton today launched his welfare-reform program by extolling work and the traditional family. He chose a heartland site, Kansas City, Missouri, to lay out his $9.3 billion plan's major component: a back-to-work scheme limiting welfare moms to two years on the dole. Republicans predictably fired back by calling the plan a big-spending initiative...