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Although he continues to postpone offering any substantive plan to save Social Security, the President has already committed prospective tobacco money for new government spending. As Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) has insisted, any windfall from anti-smoking litigation ought to be used to shore up Medicare. Preventing the dissolution of both Social Security and Medicare-care constitutes a national priority. Expansion of the federal government, even in good economic times, remains an ill-conceived prerogative...
...investigate the President of the United States. A cautious, righteous, minister's son, whose mother considers it something of a moral lapse that he now drinks coffee, he spent most of his life as a judge and a corporate lawyer, and still represents clients like Big Tobacco and General Motors. He was once considered the kind of centrist Republican that Democrats love, until he took over the Whitewater investigation and proceeded to squeeze witnesses and pursue leads with a zeal that troubled even people who lost no love for Bill Clinton...
...health and child care policy, Clinton proposed an increase in the tobacco tax, an extension of the Family and Medical Leave Act to cover more workers and a Consumer Bill of Rights to empower patients and to end abusive practices by health insurance companies and HMOs. To ensure that Americans do not have to choose between their jobs and their children, the President proposed child care tax credits for working families and for businesses that provide child care for their employees. These proposals are crucial in helping ensure that welfare reform does not throw millions of our nation's poorest...
...called the 1999 budget a ?magnificent contradiction.? That it is, but Clinton?s populist proposals -- 100,000 new teachers, child care tax credits for working families -- will be hard to fight head-on. The Republicans would do better to concentrate on Clinton?s fiscally risky use of the proposed tobacco settlement; although that $368.5 billion deal is nowhere near being inked, the President has already earmarked nearly a quarter of it for new spending plans. The White House has already prepared its spin on that one -- if the settlement goes up in smoke, Congress looks like the villain for snatching...
Lott disagreed with Clinton's emphasis on the use of tobacco among teenagers, saying narcotics pose a more dangerous problem...