Word: desks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...leaders dropped their insistence that any reform bill include politically unpalatable changes in Medicaid. The White House welcomed the news Friday and said that the prospects for passing a welfare overhaul bill this year have brightened considerably. Congress hopes to have a welfare reform bill on the President's desk before the August recess. Clinton has already vetoed two welfare reform bills that included turning Medicaid into block grants controlled by the states. "President Clinton will undoubtedly face a lot of pressure from liberal Democrats not to sign a welfare bill," says TIME's James Carney. "But early indications show...
...meet amazing jazz players at the airport (with the big sign I made with red magic marker) and participate in seminars on how to use art to teach, I guess it wasn't a good sign that I had to draw a picture of a window by my desk to imagine the outside world. Palm trees, turquoise water, white sand, sunset--I liked my picture...
...Pitt is tacked beside a poem titled "Don't Quit." Religious icons hang above the double bed; a handmade quilt hides the outsize teddy-bear slippers stashed below. Though the third wall boasts framed magazine covers of the room's tenant, the reverie of choice is taped to the desk lamp: Brad Pitt. Above the desk, a fanciful collection of macrame dream catchers dangles beneath two tidy rows of gymnastics medals...
...agree. Last week the White House was hit by disclosures that Livingstone's office had improperly gathered confidential FBI files that contained private information about 408 people, most of them Republicans who served in the Reagan and Bush administrations. Stored for two years in the vault behind Livingstone's desk, the reports were collected in 1993 and 1994 by Livingstone's friend Anthony Marceca, a civilian gumshoe with the Army's criminal-investigation command whom Livingstone handpicked to help process a mountain of security-clearance forms...
...passed on to Livingstone three FBI files containing "derogatory information." It was only after Marceca left in early 1994 that his replacement discovered what had been going on. According to the White House, the requests were quickly halted and the files put into the vault behind Livingstone's desk. The White House says Livingstone looked at none of the files except the three brought to his attention...