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Administration officials whisper that Director James Woolsey's days are numbered; some are beginning to float the names of possible successors. A joint Congress-White House commission will examine what should be done with the CIA. While it is unlikely to follow New York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan's not altogether facetious suggestion that the CIA be abolished, the commission might recommend slashing the agency's $3 billion budget and 20,000- person staff and giving some of its intelligence-gathering functions to the Defense Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency or State Department while turning over the running of many...
HEALTH CARE: Senate Finance Committee chairman Pat Moynihan last week launched a final bid to pass an incremental health-reform bill. But most lawmakers pitied the New York Democrat for trying CPR on a corpse. Even so temperate a Republican as Richard Lugar of Indiana observed that among his constituents, "people have become so afraid of what health-care reform might do to them that they're relieved nothing is getting through this year...
...seemed to indicate Quayle's political growth was that he resisted the temptation to gloat and take credit for inaugurating the family values sound bite. Instead, he said the idea was actually nor his at all; rather, that he was drawing on ideas brought up by Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan (D-N.Y.) years ago. Quayle looked supremely reasonable and the press looked like the distorting villain, just the tack he hopes to take to restore his credibility...
...these and other reasons, even Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, whose Finance Committee gave birth to the mainstream bill, gives it little chance of passage. Harold Ickes, the chief White House strategist for health legislation, has warned Clinton that he should avoid embracing the mainstream bill lest he be identified with another failure. At the same time, Leon Panetta, the new White House chief of staff and a veteran of Congress, warns that the President must not write off the efforts of key lawmakers. Upshot: Clinton is left to cheerlead in hoarse whispers from the sidelines...
...John Chafee today huddled with Senate leaders on how to draft a bill that could get a filibuster-proof 60 votes. But in nearby chambers, Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., pronounced the effort dead. Key Democrats weren't much jollier: Senate Finance Committee chairman Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., has said the Chafee bill would harm Medicare and Medicaid. And Sen. Bob Kerrey, the Nebraska Democrat now often at odds with President Clinton, waxed cynical, saying the public fears "we're going to cook a deal in the last three or four weeks of Congress...