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Clinton has lately talked of enacting some kind of stopgap legislation to keep Medicare solvent beyond 2001, which now looms as the year of bankruptcy, and then appointing a bipartisan commission to suggest long-term solutions. That sounds distressingly like a cop-out, a way to dump the problem into the lap of Clinton's successor...
...chairmen of an earlier bipartisan commission on Social Security did send Clinton a plan for some long-range reforms in that system; he ignored it. Meanwhile, the President has been proposing what would amount to an entitlement to two years of college education, to be financed by a $1,500-a-year tuition tax credit. The cost would be modest--an estimated $8 billion over six years--and the President has offered specific revenue increases and spending cuts to meet it. All the same, talking up a new entitlement is no way to prepare citizens for the painful future steps...
...fingerprints on White House initiatives large and small. It was Gore who suggested the best bit of stagecraft in Clinton's virtuoso State of the Union speech: planting in the gallery Richard Dean, a Social Security Administration employee who had heroically saved lives in Oklahoma City. Dean provoked thunderous bipartisan applause--and then G.O.P. consternation when Clinton noted that the Gingrich-inspired government shutdown had later locked Dean out of his office. It was Gore who forcefully advocated the quick appointment of Mickey Kantor as Commerce Secretary after Ron Brown's death; who persuaded Clinton to rediscover the virtues...
...hour on October 1. That rate will jump to $5.15 an hour the following September. Most Republicans bitterly opposed the populist measure initially, fearing both the boost it could give Clinton in the polls and the possible harm to small business owners. Ultimately, the measure earned considerable bipartisan support after a bitter legislative pill was sweetened by $21 billion in tax breaks for small business owners over the next decade. -->