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When the record fell, Ripken didn't do much--he came out of the dugout a couple of times and doffed his cap, but that was all it seemed he wanted...
After a University-wide task force recommended cutting the pension contribution by one percent and capping retirement health care benefits, faculty members issued a counter-proposal, asking for a soft cap on retirement benefits and the repeal of the pension reduction...
...University agreed to the soft cap, which could allow retirement health care contributions to rise with the cost of health care, but refused to reconsider the pension...
...edges by agreeing to a Democratic proposal to provide a total of $8 billion for child care for welfare mothers who get jobs. It was Pete Domenici, the Republican chairman of the Budget Committee, who led the coalition of moderate Republicans and Democrats that successfully rejected the controversial "family cap," a proposed limit on payments to unwed mothers who have more children while on welfare. Senate Republicans have also joined with Democrats to restore a long list of spending cuts the House had approved, including $1.5 billion from education and $900 million from home energy assistance for the poor. Mindful...
Twenty moderate Republicans today joined with Senate Democrats to defeat a national welfare "family cap" by a vote of 66-34. Conservatives had pushed to deny cash payments to single mothers who have more children. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, who added the family cap to his sweeping welfare reform bill last Friday, lobbied hard for the measure, saying "If we don't deal with out-of-wedlock births, then we're really not dealing with welfare reform." Republican Pete Domenici, who led the opposition, said that the payments in question were too small to discourage poor women from having...