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...effort to make deep cuts in social programs. "A failure to maintain existing welfare and health commitment for kids," he says, "is to guarantee that the next wave of juvenile predators will be even worse than we're dealing with today." DiIulio urges fellow conservatives to think of Medicaid not as a health-care program but as "an anticrime policy...
...deft and flattering reference to a First Lady who was famous for her blunt candor and who was harshly criticized for her unusually high visibility during FDR's administration. As for the budget, Clinton said that if congressional Republicans would only put off resolving key policy differences on Medicare, Medicaid and the environment until after this year's presidential election, an agreement could be reached in a snap...
...Tumulty says that may be the only way to resolve their differences. "The biggest obstacles during the negotiations have been created by policies, not numbers. Dollar amounts could always have been bridged. What's been virtually impossible for the two sides to reconcile are the arguments about block-granting Medicaid, individual retirement accounts, family caps for welfare recipients, and more. These really are issues for the voters to decide." Still, Tumulty says negotiations could well resume. "Clinton needs to decide between now and the State of the Union address on January 23rd if he wants to be the man that...
...large for a time of budget deficits, but also too much of a bad thing, meaning heavily skewed in favor of the well favored. The Administration's response was summed up by Clinton last month when he vetoed the Republican budget: "While making such devastating cuts in Medicare, Medicaid and other vital programs, this bill would provide huge tax cuts for those who are already the most well...
...sweeping telecommunications reform bill, already passed by the House and Senate and now in conference to resolve differences, effectively loans telecom giants immensely valuable new digital bandwidths worth an estimated $70 billion. "This is a big, big corporate welfare project," Safire says Dole told him. "Here we're cutting Medicaid and doing all the painful things while we lend them the spectrum for 12 years. Why shouldn't they pay for it?" Dole and Senate Commerce Committee chairman Larry Pressler have argued that these channels could easily be rented or auctioned. Though powerful media lobbying has squelched that idea...