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...Hazel O'Leary, whose expensive jaunts overseas and hiring of investigators to monitor reporters have made her an albatross, was given a clear message to pack her bags, according to the Associated Press. She is expected to announce her decision publicly within the next few days. Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor, who replaced the late Ron Brown earlier this year, has offered his resignation as well, possibly as a move toward getting a better cabinet post. Sources have told TIME that Kantor would like to be chief of staff or Attorney General. Christopher was the first to offer his resignation, informing...
...aide. Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala interrupted with disparaging comments, Clinton with factual questions. The President then went around the room. Shalala bitterly attacked the bill; Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros, Labor Secretary Robert Reich and Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin also counseled a veto. Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor, however, said, "I'm for [the bill] on the politics and on the merits." He remarked that as a legal-services attorney in the 1970s, he had found the welfare system to be fundamentally broken and in need of repair...
...Kantor attributed the greatest drop in poverty rate in over four decades to Clinton...
Avery W. Gardiner '97, chair of the IOP Student Advisory Committee, said she appreciated Kantor's "firm commitment to maintaining fair standards...
Members of the audience had nothing but praise for Kantor's speech...