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...Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the news was electrifying. The New York Democrat raced to the telephone and called Joseph Stiglitz, head of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers. "Get the President to call Bob Dole--fast!" he urged. Moynihan, who was shopping around a dramatic proposal, had just witnessed a rare moment in Washington--the possibility of bipartisan, let's-jump-off-together risk taking. Senate majority leader Dole had mumbled something positive about the idea; if the White House, too, gave it a nod, the seemingly intractable deadlock over how best to balance the federal budget could...
JUST BEFORE THE SENATE VOTED last week on its welfare-reform bill, New York's Daniel Moynihan, who had engineered his own revision in 1988, demanded a bit of rare institutional solemnity. Since most of his fellow Democrats would be embracing what he considered a historic betrayal of the poor, the Senators should rise in turn from their desks to announce their votes aloud. But Moynihan was one of the few who bothered to stay at his seat during the voting. Democrats milled around. Republican Senators engaged in a round of celebratory backslapping with the 20 or so House members...
What he means is a place somewhere between Jesse Helms and Jesse Jackson. Exactly where that might be is something the Democrats won't know for sure until they see how their latest reincarnation is playing with voters. When Moynihan was lamenting the welfare bill before the Senate, he said he had "no idea how profoundly what used to be known as liberalism was shaken by the last election.'' The battle for the middle class will shake it to its roots...
...overwhelming for poor women on their own. The 1988 Family Support Act, intended to ease mothers from welfare to work, exempts women with children under three and requires only 20 hours of work from mothers of children between three and 13--with guaranteed child care. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan scolded the White House for its eagerness to compromise so as not to be seen as soft on welfare. "This will be the first time in the history of the nation that we have repealed a section of the Social Security Act. If this Administration wishes to go down in history...
With the welfare bill stalled in the Senate as lawmakers fight over allocating a smaller pot of money, Shaw's facts-be-damned attitude drives Moynihan to distraction. "Knowing what you don't know is a form of knowledge and the beginning of wisdom," he says. "If nothing else, the Rutgers work should finally cause us to slow down and consider what we're doing." And how much would Moynihan bet that his colleagues follow his advice? "Oh," he says, "about nothing...