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TIME: The Talent-Faircloth bill cuts off welfare entirely to younger mothers and calls for establishing orphanages. Why not try something like this...
...Congress, with the White House expected to introduce its own plan this month. All four would cut off aid after as little as two years, at which point recipients would be required to go to work. The White House plan will gradually phase in the job requirement. The Talent-Faircloth bill, reflecting the views of the conservative group Empower America, would cut off benefits to unwed mothers under the age of 21 and turn the savings over to the states, which would then set up orphanages and group homes...
...existing programs or through new taxes, all four schemes reach into current spending on anti-poverty programs. A popular target is aid to legal immigrants, with provisions for the deepest cuts in the House Republican bill and the Mainstream Forum bill (backed by moderate and conservative Democrats). Talent-Faircloth also puts a ceiling on all welfare spending except Medicaid, while the House G.O.P. bill imposes a cutoff on earned income tax credits. Clinton's plan now lets the states decide whether to cap benefits to welfare mothers who bear additional children. Though some of his top advisers still favor...
...Roberta Achtenberg, Clinton's assistant secretary for fair housing, was kept from her job for months while North Carolina's Jesse Helms denounced her as a "showpiece of the homosexual movement." Meanwhile, Walter Dellinger, now an assistant Attorney General, was in limbo for six months because Helms and Lauch Faircloth, also of North Carolina, took offense at Dellinger's record of reasoned -- though pointedly liberal -- arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court...
...White House announced, will be nominated for Assistant Secretary of Defense for Democracy and Human Rights. In 1977, Halperin testified on behalf of Philip Agee, a left-wing former CIA officer who faced deportation from Britain. Senators opposed to Halperin include Republicans Trent Lott of Mississippi and Lauch Faircloth of North Carolina. While Halperin is said to be performing outstandingly in his interim Pentagon job, his Democratic support is weak, and sources say Clinton is backing away from...