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...with ways to reduce the deficit-swollen federal budget and nudging a blue-ribbon commission toward a compromise on the politically explosive question of restoring the solvency of the Social Security system (see following stories). The air of uncertainty in the capital was heightened by the resignation of Richard Schweiker as Secretary of Health and Human Services, and by word that Tennessee Republican Senator Howard Baker, the Senate majority leader and Reagan's point man on the Hill, may not run again in 1984-except possibly for President, in the event Reagan decides not to seek reelection...
...Schweiker quits the Cabinet
When he was appointed two years ago by President-elect Reagan to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, Richard Schweiker, 56, wanted to be remembered as the Cabinet member who put preventive medicine at the top of the nation's health agenda. He will probably be better known, however, as the man who attempted to trim federal welfare rolls and overhaul Medicare and formally presented the Administration's plan to reduce Social Security benefits, a proposal that went down in a flurry of controversy...
Last week Schweiker announced that he was resigning his $80,100-a-year post to become president of the American Council of Life Insurance, a lobbying group that represents 572 of the nation's life insurance companies. He will be succeeded at the agency (1983 budget: $276 billion) by Margaret Heckler, 51, a moderate Republican who served eight terms as Representative from Massachusetts until her defeat last November. Schweiker, whose new salary is reported to be in the low six figures, startled the White House with his sudden departure. Said a presidential aide: "It came as a surprise even...
...final type of attacks on Roe is more subtle, but equally repugnant in its deceptiveness. In the past year or so, the Reagan Administration and some of its Congressional backers have introduced so-called "tattle tale" legislation. These rules, the most recent of which was proposed by Richard S. Schweiker days before his resignation last week as Health and Human Services Secretary, would require federally funded clinics to notify parents of minors who receive contraceptives. Other proposals would do the same for teenage abortion patients...