Word: fixes
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Clinton will have a harder time persuading both parties to wean themselves from the special-interest cash spoiling American politics. He needs to make good on his 11th-hour promise to fix the system, partly because he knows the Republicans will dangle John Huang in his face until he can get it done. But Clinton will first have to persuade his own party to break its addiction to soft money, the large contributions from fat cats that go to "party-building" activities. It is a measure of Clinton's lack of seriousness about reform that he simply informed his allies...
...unions. He has proposed a $10,000 tax deduction for higher education, a $1,500 tax credit for two years of college or vocational school, tax-free iras that can be used to finance college tuition, a plan to mobilize a million reading tutors, a $5 billion program to fix decrepit schools and a program to connect every classroom to the Internet by 2000. There is virtually no chance that a G.O.P. Congress will agree to all this. But Clinton can find enough votes in the House and Senate if he accepts a pet program of the G.O.P...
...When?" Dole asked, amazed that Reed hadn't told him. He turned to his wife. "Wasn't Rumsfeld supposed to fix this...
...somewhat under 3% a year. Take off 1 point, and you cut a third. And that would mean the adjustment in the average monthly Social Security benefit of $698 would be $13.96 instead of $20.94, a loss of about $7. That hardly seems harsh, but it adds up. That fix, along with companion reductions in other programs tied to the CPI, "would save $1 trillion over the next 12 years," says Moynihan. And that, he adds, "would be enough to cut the debt significantly or to spend on those programs we now cut because the first question these days...
Finally, the President needs to pass a "fix-it" welfare bill to repeal the anti-legal-immigrant provisions of the act he signed and to provide vouchers for children whose mothers have been cut off. He should include his job-creation measures so welfare reform will truly begin to work. By fixing the bill yet leaving most of it intact, he sends a message that he is governing up the middle...