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...altogether. By a vote of 93 to 3, the Senate agreed last week to revamp the nation's welfare laws in the hope of breaking the cycle of dependency on government support. "It's the first major change since the 1930s," said New York's Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the architect of the bill, "and it redefines the notion of welfare...
...this at all. For a while they considered appointing a couple of economists from the Labor or Commerce Department to show their disdain." In the end, Reagan appointed two of his top former Cabinet Secretaries, Drew Lewis (Transportation) and Caspar Weinberger (Defense). Said New York Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who sponsored the commission's founding legislation and is himself a member: "The President could have been grumpy about this and chose...
...Farm Bureau Federation. The Democratic leaders of the House and Senate chose their own batch of household names: Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca; Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn; Lane Kirkland, president of the AFL- CIO; and Robert Strauss, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Congressional Democrats will be represented by Moynihan and House Budget Committee Chairman William H. Gray...
...rate remains one of the highest among industrialized nations, and one in five children lives in poverty. While Social Security remains off limits, Aid to Families with Dependent Children was cut by 19% and school-meal programs by 41% between 1981 and 1984. The U.S., argues Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, may be the "first society in history in which a person is more likely to be poor if young rather than...
...Dirty Digger," tangling with Ted Kennedy, the controversial liberal Senator tagged "the Fat Boy" in the opinion pages of Murdoch's Boston Herald. Co-stars included three equally colorful New York politicians, who look upon Murdoch's New York Post with a mixture of fear and favor: Daniel Moynihan, the professorial Senator up for re-election; Alfonse D'Amato, his scrappy colleague; and Ed Koch, the loquacious mayor who is ever eager to jump into a fray. The issues: truth, justice and the American Way. And power...