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...JAMES C. HORMEL Clinton makes him first openly gay U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg. Or anywhere...
...President Clinton is supposed to be a lame duck, he doesn't seem to be showing any signs of lameness in matters big (as in Kosovo) or small (as in the appointment of James Hormel). On Friday Clinton installed the openly gay Hormel as the new U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg without the benefit of a Senate confirmation. Hormel, a respected philanthropist and former assistant dean at the University of Chicago Law School, has had his nomination bottled up since 1997 by Senate conservatives who vehemently oppose his gay-rights activism...
...President exercised a little-used constitutional provision allowing him to make immediate appointments while the Senate is in recess (Senators are now enjoying a 10-day Memorial Day break). His action puts Hormel in the job until the end of the next Senate session, which conveniently coincides with the end of the Clinton presidency. With Republicans currently in disarray over how to enact their budget- and tax-cutting agenda, reports TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson, the President decided this could be an easy political pickup for him at little political cost -- and with solid appeal to some of his more...
...seems DIANE SAWYER may have forfeited any chance at a lucrative Hormel endorsement. In a top-secret investigation for 20/20, the program she anchors, Sawyer installed hidden cameras in her apartment, then invited a group of the show's underlings over for "homemade" chili, ostensibly to discuss work. But while Sawyer's chili, which she ate with gusto, tasted fine, her guests got a meal spiked with salt. When she left the room, cameras taped staff members' denigrating comments. The stunt was designed for a segment exposing the fact that in social situations, people often lie. Upon learning...
Lott was also joined by a majority of his fellow Republicans in a spate of anti-gay amendments to federal spending bills. And in one of the most inane displays of anti-gay prejudice, the Senate has refused to consider the nomination of James Hormel as ambassador to Luxembourg because he is gay and proud. Meanwhile, legislation that would protect gays and lesbians from being fired from their jobs because of their sexual orientation continues to languish in committee...