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...special compliance office at the Commerce Department to keep track of whether China is honoring its pledges to open markets and reduce tariffs. In addition, the Clinton Administration publicly endorsed a proposal by Representatives Sander Levin, a Michigan Democrat, and Doug Bereuter, a Nebraska Republican, to create a special watchdog commission that would keep tabs on human rights abuses in China...
...watchdog group Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety is arguing that the rule would actually lead to increased driving hours over a two-week period and that 12-hour shifts will lead to more driving hours in which truckers are fatigued. The American Trucking Association, meanwhile, argues that truckers' livelihoods would be hurt because the regulation would limit their maximum hours - particularly on jobs that are time-sensitive. No matter how you slice it, the program would be costly both to drivers and to shipping companies. And that, of course, means higher prices to consumers, with one federal agency estimating...
Patronage, of course, is nothing new to politics or to the TVA. "There's always been favoritism and cronyism, just not as extreme as now," says Stephen Smith, who heads a TVA watchdog group in Knoxville, Tenn. And no one has accused the Vice President of handing out political favors directly--simply of putting in place people who could do it for him. Yet the enrichment of his friends raises questions about the reformist image that Gore is trying to project as he grabs for the political high ground in his nascent campaign for the presidency against George W. Bush...
Crowell is given credit for getting the TVA ready for the era of deregulation. And Hayes, who was head of Tennessee's economic development agency before becoming champion of the TVA's low-interest-loan program, did much to boost local companies. But Hayes, watchdog Smith contends, was put in the agency by Gore mainly "as a placeholder until he popped up the other side, once Gore needed some real fund raising." An earthy, onetime insurance man from Sideview, Tenn., Hayes mounted his 1962 pickup and drove Gore from fish fry to cattle show during his first congressional race...
...that a vast right-wing conspiracy forced the Northrop Grumman staffers into lie under oath, it might be hard to convince the public that a group of pocket-protector-wearing techies had anything to gain by fabricating allegations. Adding to the administration's load are claims by the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, whose $90 million civil suit filed against the White House led to the DOJ investigation, that Justice took over the case simply to delay the civil action until President Clinton leaves office. So once again the mud is flying around the White House, a fact that...