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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Toughening up his approach to welfare reform, President Clinton signed an executive order requiring all mothers applying for welfare to provide the name and location of their children's father before receiving any government support. "We're not going to just let you walk away from your children and stick the taxpayers with the tab," Clinton said. Exceptions will be granted to women with legitimate reasons for withholding the father's name, such as fear of abuse, Clinton told the American Nurses Association. The idea is not new. "This reform has been proposed in every welfare bill," reports...
Bill Bennett can scarcely walk into an airport or restaurant these days without an admirer's stopping to scold him about his refusal to run for President. He sometimes responds, only half jokingly, that he would have to give up too much influence. As Education Secretary for President Reagan and drug czar for President Bush, Bennett spent eight years around the White House. "And I can't imagine," he says, "how being President could be more interesting than all the things I'm doing...
...electrical power undoubtedly had something to do with Gloria Ward's decision to walk out of the Freemen's Montana compound last week with her husband Elwyn and her two daughters--the first people to leave the besieged ranch since April. So, probably, did the threat of violence implied by the bureau's moving three armored vehicles near the place. And so did the State of Utah's offer to drop felony charges against Ward for taking her children out of state in the midst of a custody battle. But the real credit, say federal officials, goes to Ward...
Then last week I went to a perfectly legal heterosexual Jewish wedding in Chicago, and at the end of the ceremony both bride and groom stomped on glasses. Apparently, that's done a lot these days, in the same spirit as having both parents walk down the aisle with the bride. I had simply been behind the times...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Bob Dole will walk into the Senate chambers tomorrow as he has for the past 27 years, a powerful Kansas Senator. He will walk out, as he has described himself, as just an ordinary man running for president. Dole's Senate legacy is pragmatic, one not so much of crafting brilliant legislative initiatives, as getting them passed. In 1965, he teamed up with Senator George McGovern to salvage the faltering food stamps program. In 1990 he brought President Bush around to support the Americans With Disabilities Act, although the legislation bears the name of Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin...