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...having large programs such as Aid for Dependent Children, school lunch subsidies and the Women, Infants and Children supplements under one big roof makes a lot of sense. We have national standards (though even now the states have too much leeway for compliance) and a fantastic capacity for gathering and pooling information in utilization reviews...
...House Ways and Means Committee approved the centerpiece of theRepublican welfare reform plantoday, voting 22-11 to give states more leeway in distributing benefits and to cut off government aid to most legal immigrants. The legislation also would replace cash benefits to thousands of disabled children with expanded medical services. Another House committee approved legislation to tighten rules for the food stamp program and to hold down automatic increases in benefits...
...something that doesn't matter, like race or gender.'' In the tangle of its earlier rulings on affirmative action, the Supreme Court has required states and localities to design race-based preferences narrowly, as compensation for well-documented prior discrimination. But the court allowed the Federal Government greater leeway, in part because, under the Fourteenth Amendment, Congress has broad powers to ensure equal protection to all citizens. Adarand's lawyers want federal actions subjected to the same strict scrutiny applied to states. That argument lost twice in the lower courts. In the Supreme Court, however, all bets...
...hikes. (The idea, which goes to the House floor Jan. 4, makes it much harder to raise taxes than under the current 51 percent vote required.) The tax reform package, a key element of the party's 10-point "Contract with America," also bans retroactive tax increases and allows leeway only for revenue-raising hikes and others to offset any forthcoming capital gains cuts. The GOP also formally embraced a series of rule changes that will force staff cuts, limit committee chairmen to three consecutive terms and eliminate all $5 million in funds for 28 legislative support groups, such...
Precisely how far Israel will take the war is not clear. Israeli intelligence analysts and Hamas insiders say the orders for al-Qassam cadres come from leaders living in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Sudan and Iran. Operatives of the Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, have been given added leeway and increased funding to keep tabs on these commanders, but their specific instructions are unknown...