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...supported. When Stumpf withdrew his name, McCain called the Secretary at his office and screamed, "You are finished!" McCain and Dalton have barely spoken since. During a closed-door meeting of G.O.P. Senators to discuss the tobacco legislation that he was championing, McCain barked that New Mexico Senator Pete Domenici, who had prepared a chart outlining the costs of McCain's proposal, was a "chickens___." Other colleagues are the subject of his barracks humor when they are not around. In June 1998 the Arizonan got up at a Washington G.O.P. fund raiser and told a profoundly demeaning joke about Chelsea...
...second most important thing that parents want from public schools, and it is a goal that most parents think the schools fail to achieve. Most parents try to teach their kids character, only to watch the media and some school curriculums undermine what is taught at home. PETE V. DOMENICI U.S. Senator, New Mexico Washington...
...Congress, two Senators who have seen family members with mental illness benefit from modern treatments are trying to improve access to care for others. Republican Pete Domenici of New Mexico and Democrat Paul Wellstone of Minnesota have introduced a bill that would force employers to provide the same level of coverage for mental and physical illnesses. Although the bill would represent the most meager of advances--it would help only those well enough to work--its passage will still require a monumental lobbying effort. Business groups are already working against it, saying it's part of a liberal package...
...Domenici and Wellstone point out that the legislation is a solid long-term investment, since it would help people get treated before their illnesses become so severe that they lose their jobs or hurt themselves. Even business lobbyists admit that the cost increases for mental-health insurance will be small (maybe 1%). But they fear it will open the door to other mandates as well. "You have to remember that the Patient's Bill of Rights is being considered too," says Kate Sullivan of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, referring to the proposal in Congress to make it easier...
Prospects for the mental-health bill look even weaker in the House than in the Senate, where Domenici chairs the influential budget committee. House majority whip Tom DeLay of Texas, who has close ties to business groups, was 1 of just 17 members of the House to vote against a very weak 1996 version of the Domenici-Wellstone proposal; he also seems to have a deep suspicion of psychology in general. Just last month, he accused the American Psychological Association of trying to "normalize pedophilia" after the association published a study suggesting that not all childhood victims of sexual abuse...