Word: jerseyed
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Democratic Congressman Robert Torricelli of New Jersey plans to introduce this week the most comprehensive national-service plan yet: a bill that would draft all American men and women ages 18 to 25 for one year of service in either the military or approved civilian projects. Oklahoma Democrat Dave McCurdy will submit a proposal for a voluntary program that would require applicants for federal college loans to spend a year in national service first. Neither of the bills is likely to pass in this session. But they will help stimulate a debate that has been under way since the draft...
...dispute will heat up shortly, when the New Jersey Supreme Court rules on a suit filed by the family of Nancy Ellen Jobes, asking for the removal of a feeding tube from the 31-year-old comatose woman. A contentious brief in the Jobes case was filed by New Jersey's Catholic bishops. In the view of several Boston participants, the document distorts church tradition by opposing the withdrawal of nutrition under any circumstances...
Meanwhile, in Congress, Secretary of State George Shultz offered no response when Representative Robert Torricelli (D.-New Jersey) told him during a hearing the U.S.-provided weapons were having a "dramatic" impact in Iran's favor in its war with Iraq...
...about welfare reform? Three things: 1) such rhetoric now resounds across the political spectrum, from Ronald Reagan to Daniel Patrick Moynihan to Ted Kennedy, and reflects an emerging consensus that embraces just about every politician who speaks on the issue; 2) states from California through Illinois to New Jersey are experimenting with overhauls of their welfare systems, focused on work requirements, and the Federal Government is talking about giving their efforts a formal blessing; 3) as a result, and at long last, something worthwhile might actually be done. Pondering the diverse sources and remarkably similar conclusions of a clutch...
...Domestic Policy Council. The National Governors' Association has scheduled a vote Feb. 24 on a welfare reform plan, featuring work, training or study obligations for recipients, including mothers of children age 3 or more; approval is expected. In his budget message last week, Republican Governor Thomas Kean of New Jersey proposed a plan that would require all able-bodied welfare recipients, except mothers of children age 2 or younger, to take jobs, return to school or enroll in training programs...