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Resolutely positive, Mrs. Dole says the FDA sought the consent decree merely as a yardstick to measure improvement. She was so prepared for this conversation with TIME that she read aloud remarks by Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala and FDA commissioner David Kessler praising her management. The consent decree, she says, "literally was a ratification, it was a ratification of what we were doing...
...neglect and abuse of children is the "nation's shame," says Donna Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services. There has been an alarming 25% rise in cases between 1988 and 1993, a year when 2.9 million incidents were reported to child-welfare agencies and 1,028 kids died of maltreatment. At the same time, burnout and budget cuts are steadily thinning the ranks of child-welfare workers, and those who remain are juggling unwieldy case- loads with dwindling resources. In 22 states and the District of Columbia, child-protection systems have been ruled inadequate by the courts...
Hillary Clinton's speech to the Nongovernmental Organizations Women's Conference in a suburb of Beijing was such a hot ticket that even Donna Shalala had a hard time getting in. The Health and Human Services secretary and Winston Lord, an assistant secretary of state, were kept outside in the pouring rain for a half an hour until the two soaked Clinton Administration officials were admitted through a side door. Thousands more were kept out as more than 3,000 women packed into a 1,500-seat theater to hear the First Lady urge them to make the goals...
...balance the budget, not even to fix Medicare, but to give a tax break to people who don't need a tax break." President Clinton plans to grab the baton Tuesday at a Medicare "birthday celebration" event on Capitol Hill, while Gephardt, Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala and other Democrats will attend a ceremony marking the anniversary on Sunday in Independence, Mo., where President Johnson signed the legislation into law, sitting beside former President Harry Truman, who had fought long and hard for national health insurance.House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who spent the day in Iowa not running...
...take the first crack at avolatile Medicare overhaul, but Democrats weren't biting. At a hearing today, Committee chairman Bill Archer (R-Tx.) accused the White House of holding the $175 billion Medicare program "hostage" to its insistence on broader health reforms. But Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala, testifying before the panel, fired back by suggesting the GOP was simply exaggerating Medicare's fiscal problems as an excuse to slash $300 billion by 2002 in order to fund tax cuts and balance the budget...