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...AIDS. But opponents believe the plan could be both dangerous and costly. "Unless you believe we have the AIDS crisis under control, I would advise you to resist this potentially explosive policy change," Senate Republican leader Robert Dole wrote last week to Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala...
...provided such workers are not illegal aliens, an employer can argue that they are "independent contractors" responsible for their own paperwork.) The Cabinet is already shaping up to reflect this bias, at least where women are concerned. Of Clinton's top female appointees, Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala and now Reno are unmarried and have no children; Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary and U.N. Representative Madeleine Albright have grown kids; only EPA chief Carol Browner has to worry about child care. So much for the President's vaunted vow to create a government "that looks like America...
...Clintonic mood is already seeping into the administration's lower ranks. In her confirmation hearings, Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala was asked whether she or the president would have to give ground on the issue of welfare. Shalala has in the past advocated traditional welfare programs, while Clinton plans to "end welfare as we know it." Shalala's Clintonic-mood reply: neither she nor Clinton will have to compromise...
...focus has to be health care. This is a tough one. We'll have to send out some trial balloons. Don't you do that--pass the buck to Shalala. Watch out for the AARP. They're already rumbling about the Social Security changes...
Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala, the former University of Wisconsin president who was a vocal advocate of campus speech codes, is apparently working her usual guilt trip magic over in Washington, D.C. Common sense, medical knowledge, and the government's primary responsibility to its own people are all disregarded for fear that words like "discrimination," "ethnocentrism," and "insensitivity" will be thrown like bricks at the already battered image of our golden-boy president...