Word: overhauled
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...year 2000 will qualify for taxpayer funding. Lamm and his supporters are already vying for the money, which will amount to several million dollars. More immediately, Perot has helped put two issues squarely at the center of the nation's agenda: campaign-finance reform and the need to overhaul Medicare and Social Security. "If Ross Perot had only known what to do with the remnants of a losing presidential campaign," says Ralph Reed, executive director of the Christian Coalition, "he would be one of the most powerful men of this time." Because he did not, the future of a third...
...obliged to compromise and pass welfare, health and minimum wage bills. Part of a three- day run of signing ceremonies designed to showcase the President's achievements, Wednesday's event follows the President's approval of the minimum wage bill on Tuesday. He is expected to approve the welfare overhaul bill on Thursday. "By signing the welfare bill, Clinton will take that issue off the table," says McAllister. "That leaves Dole with tax cuts and the character issue. And the Clinton camp believes that voters will see through tax cut promises." By Thursday, the President hopes to have polished...
...bill increasing the minimum wage to $4.75 an hour. The ceremony on the White House South Lawn, attended by cabinet officials and minimum wage workers, is part of an elaborately scripted legislative run-up to the Democratic National Convention. Later this week, the President will sign a welfare overhaul bill and a measure that enhances health care coverage for working Americans. How will the Dole camp counter? "Dole will do two things," predicts TIME's John Dickerson. "Dole's campaign can say that any reform bills Clinton signs were originally produced by a Republican Congress with Dole at its head...
...burgeon over the next 61 years into a mammoth federally financed and regulated welfare program. Last week, though, the equally historic nature of the decision facing Bill Clinton was clear not just to the White House but the whole nation. So the President turned his deliberations over a radical overhaul of F.D.R.'s welfare system into a solemn little drama...
...lesson may be on the minds of Congressional Republicans this year: After more than a year and a half most remembered for interminable budget disputes and seemingly endless ethics investigations, Congress in the last week has embarked on an impressive flurry of activity. The Senate today passed a major overhaul of welfare by a 78-21 vote, following Thursday's action in the House. The welfare reforms end a sixty year federal guarantee of financial aid to the needy and transfer much authority to the 50 states. The reforms are expected to save almost $10 billion a year...