Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sullivan may have lost control of HHS even before he was confirmed as its chief. Shortly after he was nominated, Sullivan alarmed antiabortion groups by remarks he made in a newspaper interview in which he appeared to support the Supreme Court's pro-abortion Roe v. Wade decision. Soon after, the beleaguered nominee met with Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, a pro-life Republican who had the power to thwart the nomination. Hatch, who says his intervention came at the request of the President, presented Sullivan with his own list of pro-life- approved candidates for top jobs in the department...
...case Sullivan did not understand that inviting the Hatch nominees into the department was a condition of the Senator's support, Hatch also relayed his list to Sununu, who could be counted on to recognize a quid pro quo when he saw one. "The Administration promised to put antiabortion people all around Sullivan," complains Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment. "They made sure he wouldn't exercise independent judgment." Hatch brushes off all of the protests. "Bush has said he stands for certain principles," the Senator says. "So why should he appoint...
...Sullivan believed he could still make his mark through lower-echelon appointments, he has since discovered that there too Sununu has the power to thwart him. Robert Fulton, picked by Sullivan to be director of the Family Support Administration, withdrew from consideration after persistent questions from the White House about his philosophy on abortion. So did William Danforth, whom Sullivan wanted to head the NIH. Sullivan says that while there are other reasons the NIH director's job has been hard to fill, including questions about salary and the Institutes' structure, the White House's phone grilling of Danforth "made...
Like Ronald Reagan, who managed to preside in relative secrecy over $90 billion in "revenue enhancements" after the well-publicized (and disastrous) 1981 tax cuts, Bush has some bipartisan support for his antitax posture. Democrat James Sasser of Tennessee, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, insisted last week, "What we've done here does not waddle enough to be called ducks." Perhaps. But since the nearly $6 billion in revenue enhancements enacted last week will rise to $30 billion over the next five years, taxpayers may be forgiven if they exercise their right to squawk...
...filled with luxurious ranch-style homes set off by manicured lawns. As the government sent in its helicopters and light tanks, it became clear that the rebels had switched tactics and were showing the rich that the war could come to their elegant front doors. Some demonstrated their support for the government troops by sending servants out with cookies and milk...