Word: pete
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...find a job and can spend a total of just five years on the rolls. But Republicans also smoothed some of the hard edges by agreeing to a Democratic proposal to provide a total of $8 billion for child care for welfare mothers who get jobs. It was Pete Domenici, the Republican chairman of the Budget Committee, who led the coalition of moderate Republicans and Democrats that successfully rejected the controversial "family cap," a proposed limit on payments to unwed mothers who have more children while on welfare. Senate Republicans have also joined with Democrats to restore a long list...
...bigger than the Black Sox scandal of 1919. It was bigger than the Pete Rose gambling allegations. And in time it will prove to be bigger than the strike that ended last season prematurely...
...much suggest a new and insouciant political magazine as it does a Bicentennial-era issue of Cosmopolitan. Fortunately, George is mostly uphill from there. One piece analyzes the leaking styles of various Clinton Administration officials; another offers a wonderful series of photos from New Hampshire in which a Pete Wilson operative snatches a BOB DOLE button off the shirt of a child who is posing with the Californian...
Training camp may be breeding more questions than answers for the Big Green of Dartmouth. Junior Jon Aljancic, senior Ren Riley and senior Jerry Singleton are at war for the quarterback spot. Pete Oberle, who sat out four games of 1994 with knee injury, may or may not be able to go this season...
...mothers who have more children. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, who added the family cap to his sweeping welfare reform bill last Friday, lobbied hard for the measure, saying "If we don't deal with out-of-wedlock births, then we're really not dealing with welfare reform." Republican Pete Domenici, who led the opposition, said that the payments in question were too small to discourage poor women from having more out-of-wedlock children. He added that the limitation might actually encourage poor women to have abortions...