Word: democratically
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Throngs of politicians, friends and family of former Speaker of the House Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill gathered in Cambridge for the Democrat's funeral here Monday morning...
Some Senators overseeing U.S. aid to the former Soviet Union say the program is so poorly managed it should be overhauled before it uses up any more money ($2.5 billion is to be spent in 1994). Senators Patrick Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, and Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, are refusing to approve any new projects until oversight hearings take place on Jan. 24. McConnell has described the briefings the Clinton Administration has provided about the aid program as "contradictory, incomplete, (and) inaccurate...
...children on welfare were born out of wedlock, compared with just 10% for American children generally, critics accuse the system of creating financial incentives for single motherhood. Add to those sentiments an enduring voter discontent over taxes and pressure on the President to keep up his image as "new Democrat." All have combined to make welfare reform a White House priority. "It has gone from a subject for think tanks to a grass-roots issue," says one top Administration official. "It has a big head of steam...
Cambridge and Harvard officials yesterday lamented the passing of Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill Jr., a wellknown Cantabrigian Democrat whose political career began in North Cambridge and culminated with a decade as speaker of the House...
...Bill Clinton is learning, there is no such thing as a painless presidential promise. In August, just minutes before the win-or-die budget vote in the House, Clinton cut a deal to gain the crucial support of freshman Pennsylvania Democrat Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky. The price seemed paltry: the President agreed to appear this week at an entitlements summit in her suburban Philadelphia district to discuss the role of government benefit programs in fueling the deficit...