Word: panetta
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...bureau's command post in Billings, FBI Director Louis Freeh sent a top deputy, Robert ("Bear") Bryant, chief of the FBI's national security division. He sends regular field reports to Freeh, who in turn confers daily with Attorney General Reno. At the White House, Chief of Staff Leon Panetta has kept the President up to date...
...solution to the long-running budget crisis that would provide funding for federal programs through the end of the 1996 fiscal year. The final obstacles fell as the Senate proposed a $1.3 billion dollar contingency fund for federal programs particularly important to the White House. Chief of Staff Leon Panetta said on CNN Sunday that the Administration would accept such a proprosal. The Senate and House will meet in conference this week to work out the details on how to provide more than $160 billion to fund the nine Cabinet Departments and numerous other federal agencies. The long-awaited compromise...
...House that night, they got their first inkling that Clinton's crew was not in a conciliatory mood. In earlier budget summits, Gingrich, Dole and House majority leader Dick Armey had faced off against Clinton, Gore, Daschle, House minority leader Dick Gephardt and White House chief of staff Leon Panetta. Gephardt and Gore, who both have their eye on the presidential race in 2000, had come to be known among the Republicans as "the chaperons," as in "We could have gone further, but the chaperons were watching." This time the Republicans wanted to bring along the Budget chairmen, Kasich...
...Rubin has avoided taking that step, thus buying President Clinton time and negotiating room, by tapping into federal trust funds, a maneuver that some Republicans say is unconstitutional and could lead to Rubin's impeachment. The White House scoffs at that suggestion, but White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta said Sunday: "Clearly, we don't want to continue to have the Secretary taking these actions...
...progress, while the budget negotiation's key players were away and some federal bureaucrats staged a "work-in," top Administration and Congressional officials may be getting closer to resolving the budget deadlock that has partially shut down government for the past two weeks. White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta emerged from a three-hour meeting with Republican leaders on Friday, announcing the possibility of a stopgap spending measure that would send federal employees back to work while a budget is finalized. "The general tone has shifted among the principals," says Congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty. "They seen to be coming...