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...they weren't able to kill off Clinton's AmeriCorps--and now it's coming back at them stronger than ever, as the linchpin of Freedom Corps. Republicans are against paying people with time on their hands to do what they might do anyway. In 1997 House majority leader Dick Armey called AmeriCorps a "welfare program for aspiring yuppies," and Senator Rick Santorum described it as a sweet deal for those "picking up trash in a park and singing Kumbaya...
Vice President Dick Cheney still refuses to disclose information about his energy task force, and Congress is threatening to sue. Is Cheney hiding something? Or is he standing up for principle and protecting the right of future Administrations to have policy dictated by corporate malefactors in strictest confidence? Given the way things work in Washington, it is unlikely any actual laws were broken...
...Houston energy-trading company having gone from No. 7 on the FORTUNE 500 to Public Scandal No. 1, we present a complete guide to the Enron debacle. This week Molly Ivins writes on how the Enron effect has affected Houston, and Yale law professor Akhil Amar discusses why Dick Cheney should give in to congressional demands to see his Enron notes. Also, see a time line of the company's steady rise and spectacular fall, a guide to the players and continuing coverage of the case, at time.com/2002/enron...
Since the Enron story broke, TIME's crack investigative reporter MICHAEL WEISSKOPF has been digging deep into the scandal. This week Weisskopf discovers a possible reason why Dick Cheney is reluctant to release notes from his energy task force: a May 3 meeting between the Vice President and lobbyists for electric utilities that gave money for a May 21 presidential gala. Talk with him about the Enron mess on Thursday...
...Dick Cheney has taken a hard line against the General Accounting Office, refusing its efforts to get information on meetings held by his energy task force. Critics suspect that Cheney is stonewalling to conceal the Administration's links with bankrupt energy giant Enron. But Cheney may be hiding more than that. Several other energy companies had opportunities to influence the Administration's energy policy, with both persuasion and money...