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...watering it down so that it can actually become a law, sources tell TIME Washington Correspondent Julie Johnson. Today, Clinton portrayed the bill as a memorial to high-profile crime victims like Polly Klass, the child kidnapped and murdered last year in Northern California. His chief of staff, Leon Panetta, insisted that an assault weapons ban was a key part of any crime plan. Yet, the House Democratic Leadership is busy working on a compromise that could dilute this specific provision to appease the conservatives, Johnson says. Provided Clinton has not drawn a line in the sand, expect...
...White House says Democratic National Committee chairman David Wilhelm wasn't fired but admits that new chief of staff Leon Panetta wanted to shore up the party leadership after a string of Democratic losses since 1993. In an increasingly regular pattern in the Clinton White House, old friend Wilhelm will stay on as chairman until after the November elections, while former House majority whip and current Wall Street powerhouse Tony Coelho will step in as a senior adviser. Coelho, who resigned in 1989 amid accusations he improperly mixed politics and finance, will keep his investment-banking job while advising...
...next day, when loyal supporters protested, the President claimed he was sticking with his original goal. But on Thursday night, Senate majority leader George Mitchell sat down in the Oval Office with the President, the First Lady, Vice President Al Gore and new chief of staff Leon Panetta and delivered some bad news: no plan as ambitious as Clinton's could pass the Senate. Instead Congress would try to produce a "less bureaucratic" plan. Universal coverage would still be the goal, but it would have to be phased in very slowly. With less than three months before congressional elections, Clinton...
...Panetta Prepares a Shakeup...
WASHINGTON -- Incoming White House chief of staff LEON PANETTA is getting ready for some changes at the White House, and domestic-policy adviser Carol Rasco could be among the first to be reassigned. "Cabinet members don't know who to deal with when they need a decision from the White House," says an Administration official. "Some go through Rasco, and ((some)) go through Al Gore. It's been very messy...