Word: overhauled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...promised, President Clinton vetoed the sweeping G.O.P.-sponsored overhaul of the welfare system that would have given lump-sum federal grants and shifted basic responsibilities to the states. Clinton said the legislation came packaged with too many spending cuts and too few incentives to move people from welfare to work...
President Clinton has signed into law a major overhaul of lobbying that TIME's Viveca Novak says will "dramatically improve access to information about who's helping whom in Washington." Under the first major change in lobby regulation in a half-century, lobbyists will be required to register their clients and disclose the issues on which they are working, and roughly how much they are paid. "Lobbyists in the back room, secretly rewriting laws and looking for loopholes, do not have a place in our democracy," said Clinton, who was joined by lawmakers of both parties who had passed...
After a year's investigation--longer than Congress took to craft its overhaul of the entire Federal Government--the House ethics committee issued its first pronouncement regarding the array of charges filed against Speaker Newt Gingrich. The panel's biggest decision: to hire a special counsel to investigate the financing of a college course Gingrich taught in Georgia. The panel took no action on a number of other charges but sharply reprimanded the Speaker for his controversial book deal and "the impression" it created of "exploiting one's office for personal gain." Democratic whip David Bonior said he would soon...
...confident that there is no deep structural problem or crisis in the arrangements for public service at Harvard. Indeed, during the review of 1994 we were told by many students and others that the support public service at Harvard was working well and did not require a major overhaul. Accordingly the modest changes being made now should not disrupt any existing public service activity or program...
President Clinton and the Republican congressional leadership met behind closed White House doors to discuss how to bridge their differences over the G.O.P.'s seven-year balanced-budget plan, which includes large tax cuts and a Medicare overhaul. In an unsurprising development, no agreement was reached--not on the budget plan and not on an extension of the nation's debt ceiling, which is scheduled to expire sometime this month. Republicans have said they won't agree to more than a brief extension of the debt--which must be approved by Congress and is necessary to avert default on billions...