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...Antonio River, four Congresswomen gleefully summed up the moment. Said Democrat Geraldine Ferraro of New York: "We've got the issues, we've got the gender gap on our side, and at long last the men are going to pay attention to us." Republican Congresswomen Claudine Schneider of Rhode Island and Olympia Snowe of Maine said that even the White House had begun to take notice. Not a moment too soon. The fourth member of the group, Democrat Barbara Kennelly of Connecticut, had brought both Republican and Democratic delegates to their feet cheering when she pronounced President Ronald...
Both were evident last week. Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler testified on Capitol Hill for a bill providing for enforcement of child-support payments. A group of Republican Congresswomen met with White House staffers to discuss child-support and pension reform. Schneider called the meeting "a significant signal that the White House is serious" about portions, at least, of the Economic Equity Act. This is a complex package of legislation on pension reform, tax relief, insurance discrimination and child-care issues developed by the Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues...
...better off than we were when we started," said State Department Official William Schneider. "We are crawling back to where we want to be." Sorting through the ambiguities created by a week's worth of arm wrestling with Congress over control of Central American policy, the Administration was able to claim a marginal victory. Lobbyists from the State Department nudged key House and Senate panels toward giving more money and support to El Salvador than many critics had wanted...
...Schneider said the Administration could live with the conditions. He contended that the Salvadoran government could engage in talks but still fend off the guerrillas' previously stated demands to reorganize the government to include them, in effect canceling the results of last year's elections, in which they had refused to participate. The Administration has backed the government of Alvaro Alfredo Magafta Borja in its resistance to such "power sharing," and has suggested limiting any dialogue to a discussion of the ground rules under which both sides could participate in elections...
...social protests of the '60s gave way to the economic shocks of the '70s and '80s, pollsters and academics have noted declining American confidence in the nation's institutions. In The Confidence Gap (Free Press; 434 pages; $19.95), Stanford Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset and William Schneider of the American Enterprise Institute attempt to discover how steep that decline has been and what caused...