Word: lowey
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Efforts to improve the recovery of looted art are under way. G.O.P. House Banking Committee chairman James Leach and Democrats Charles Schumer and Nita Lowey of New York are considering legislation that would require more careful research into the provenance of a work at the time of its sale. In August the National Jewish Museum in Washington launched the Holocaust Art Restitution Project, or HARP, a database and research institute dedicated to cataloging lost collections both in Europe and the U.S. The World Jewish Congress has established a similar project, headed by Ronald Lauder, the chairman of the board...
...that Ralston was getting a free ride for behavior that has sunk the careers of several officers and drove First Lieut. Kelly Flinn out of the Air Force last month. "It is very clear that the Pentagon is selectively enforcing its rules on sexual conduct," said Democratic Representative Nita Lowey of New York. "We cannot have one set of rules for the big boys in the Pentagon and another for the rank and file...
...questions. And at least five of the most ardent of the newly elected abortion foes are women, blurring the battle lines of gender for the first time. "Their agenda is very clear. First, Newt Gingrich's hundred days; now, it's Pat Robertson's hundred days," said Democrat Nita Lowey of New York, who heads the House women's caucus. "We don't have the votes to stop any of this in the House...
...problem only marginally relates to abortion. Any nominee Clinton selected who had performed even one abortion would have been assailed by Religious Right organizations such as the Christian Coalition and the National Clergy Council, but that is to be expected. Rep. Nita Lowey, chair of the House Pro-Choice Task Force, was correct when she said in a news conference this week that "the idea that performing a legal, medical procedure could even possible disqualify Dr. Foster is an outrage," but it is certainly understandable that anti-abortion groups might subscribe to that idea...
...Administration, meanwhile, appears charmed by Lowey's "advice." Fearing a dustup that could scuttle health reform, Clinton is trying to sidestep the controversy by promising to cover "medically necessary pregnancy-related services." If the President thinks he can dance around the pro-lifers with that language, he should think again. "Medically necessary" is a term of bureaucratic art. It dates from the days before Hyde's amendment and was routinely interpreted as permitting abortion on demand. Hyde is ready for war: "No way am I going to let the crucial definitions be determined by the little one," he says scornfully...