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...will still push for tax cuts, fewer federal regulations, reduction in federal spending and balancing the budget. Congress also will continue its investigations into the Clinton administration on a range of ethics issues, the latest being questionable foreign donations to the Democratic Party. White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta claims that the message from the election was that voters want compromise not partisan warfare. "The American people have really rejected four years of those kinds of allegations that led nowhere," Panetta said. "If we bog down in the kind of gridlock and partisanship and attacks that we saw over...
WASHINGTON: Five high-level members of the Clinton Administration will resign as the President prepares for his second term. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, Defense Secretary William Perry and Chief of Staff Leon Panetta are all leaving voluntarily. Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary, whose expensive jaunts overseas and hiring of investigators to monitor reporters have made her an albatross, was given a clear message to pack her bags, according to the Associated Press. She is expected to announce her decision publicly within the next few days. Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor, who replaced the late Ron Brown earlier this year...
After 2 1/2 hours, the meeting broke up with no formal decision. Clinton, Gore and chief of staff Leon Panetta went into the Oval Office; a bit later Reed and John Hilley, the President's top lobbyist to Congress, were summoned. Clinton asked a few more questions. Then he said, "Let's do it," and, rising from his chair, declared, "I want to sign it." Gore patted his shoulder and said, "I know that was tough...
With White House help, the low-key Farr won Leon Panetta's old seat in a 1993 special election. Perhaps to repay the debt, Farr quickly changed his NAFTA stripes and voted for the Clinton-backed agreement. The nine-time California Legislator of the Year took his political skills to Washington. When the military closed Fort Ord, Farr got part of the base converted to an environmental-science center for the state's public universities. The seat may be Farr's for keeps if he can hold off Jess Brown again...
...embarrass Clinton? "Obviously it's not impossible," says editor in chief Phil Bunton. "But we saw nobody else's fingerprints on this story but hers." One thing that made him doubt any political motives was her naivete. Rowlands didn't know what jobs Clinton aides like Leon Panetta and George Stephanopoulos held, and had misspelled their names in her diaries...