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...House Government Reform Committee, under the leadership of longtime Clinton foe Dan Burton, began official hearings into the Marc Rich pardon on February 8. Since then, the committee has subpoenaed nearly everyone and everything involved in the Rich case - from ex-wife Denise Rich, who took the Fifth, to contribution records for the Clinton Library Foundation, which have been slow to emerge from behind a stubborn stonewall...
...BURTON AND WAXMAN SHOW (3/01/01 [p.m.] Podesta, Nolan and Lindsey testify, along with Jack Quinn, in a very long day before the House Government Reform Committee. During their often contentious exchanges, the witnesses insist there was no quid pro quo between Marc Rich's sponsors and President Clinton - or the President's financial interests. All but Quinn vehemently underscore their personal opposition to the Rich pardon, insisting they never thought the President would grant it. Ongoing appeals on behalf of Marc Rich from outgoing Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, Podesta says, may well have played a decisive role in Clinton...
...DOINGS ON THE HILL (3/01/01 [a.m.] The House Government Reform Committee prepares to hear testimony from former Clinton aides John Podesta, Beth Nolan and Bruce Lindsey. Democratic fund-raiser Beth Dozoretz appears in person only to take the Fifth...
...There will be no Clinton-style laundry lists on Tuesday night, and certainly no lists of things Bush wants to cut. (Those, and there won't be many, he'll save for the small print of the blueprint he sends to Congress on Wednesday morning.) This isn't reform, or reinventing government - just keeping the message focused. Bush basically ran a four-part campaign - tax cuts, education, the military and honor/dignity - and he's already put off his Pentagon overhaul for a year. The honor-and-dignity thing is selling itself these days, which leaves tax cuts and education. Everything...
...inconceivable that anyone, upon learning that fully 2,000 votes were firmly cast (in one county!) for no candidate at all, could argue against revising our balloting systems. Those votes, which will taunt Al Gore and 2,000 apparently disoriented Dade County residents, are a clarion call for ballot reform...