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...accommodate his need to be with John Paul, Cisneros, 46, has had to reorder his life. He ended discussions of his possibly being appointed to Lloyd Bentsen's seat in the U.S. Senate because the Texas-Washington commute would have taken up too much of his time. Cisneros accepted the hud job partly because it offered the chance to stay put with...
...Clinton pulled back from the bruising fight and left the Senate Finance Committee to wrangle over a replacement plan that included some combination of a gasoline tax and cuts in Medicare. The negotiations will be tense as the committee struggles to meet its deadline this Friday. Said Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, the Administration's economic point man: "Sometimes I chew...
...effect of all the dealing, lobbyists say, was to encourage other special interests to seek similar exemptions in the name of fairness. "While we're labeled the lobbyists and special interests by the President and Lloyd Bentsen," said Jerry Jasinowski of the National Association of Manufacturers, "they put in over a dozen special-interest provisions in this thing...
...girl" on her, comparing the way the candidate tossed her blond hair to the slow-motion antics of models in the shampoo commercial. But Hutchison, the Texas state treasurer, survived those and many other attacks. Last week she defeated Democrat Bob Krueger, winning the seat vacated in January by Lloyd Bentsen and becoming the first woman to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate. As Texas political analyst George Christian noted, "The gender factor has worked for her. I don't think you can overstate the issue of gender in today's politics. Women are playing political catch...
...chose the conservative Democratic city of Milwaukee as the setting for his announcement that he was willing to cut both taxes and spending in his budget plan. He asked that education and job training be spared, but appeared ready to sacrifice part of his proposed energy tax. Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen later said it might be reduced by as much as a third. Clinton also delayed a push to increase the minimum wage...