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...about the most liberal Republican in the U.S. Senate, Jeffords sat at his peaceful mountaintop farmhouse near Burlington, Vermont, last week taking half- desperate telephone calls from the likes of Vice President Al Gore, Education Secretary Dick Riley, Labor chief Robert Reich and Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala. All were calling to persuade Jeffords to vote for Bill Clinton's embattled economic stimulus package when it comes up for a vote this week. The White House left nothing to chance: behind the scenes, Clinton aides offered highly prized exclusive interviews with Clinton and Gore to Vermont television stations...
...confirm reports that Hillary Rodham Clinton's health-care task force was considering a new, value-added tax to pay for the $60 billion in reforms her team is contemplating. Just as millions of Americans prepared to file their income tax returns, a USA Today report quoted Shalala as saying that the health-care task force was examining some form of VAT in addition to Clinton's already announced plans for new energy taxes, higher sin taxes and rising top marginal rates. Coming two months after Clinton himself called the VAT a "radical" idea, the story could not have been...
...Oregon health care plan recently approved by Health and Human Services Secretary Donna E. Shalala has recevied less attention than the more prominent idea of managed compeptition, even though it makes more sense and has been more fully worked...
Secretary for Health and Human Services Donna E. Shalala said the proposed reforms will provide an important framework for the improved planning and coordination of AIDS research...
Along the way, Reiter also takes cheap shots at Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala, whom she calls "a vocal advocate of campus speech codes," and to President Clinton, with reference to the "already battered iamge of our golden-boy president." Any detailed examination of Shalala's record as University of Wisconsin chancellor (not president) would show that far from being a "vocal advocate" of speech codes, she established such a code only very reluctantly after several racial incidents. And as for President Clinton, despite a run of incredibly bad publicity and, I concede, a shaky first few weeks...