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...expansion of its long-standing mandate to pay when the mother's life is endangered. After dawdling for months, HHS decided that the new law meant states must fund such abortions or risk losing their Medicaid dollars -- a legal interpretation other Administration lawyers dispute. As procedure dictates, a draft directive was faxed to the offices of White House Cabinet Secretary Christine Varney and domestic policy chief Carol Rasco. Almost everyone, including the President, had left for Christmas vacation, and the proposed order sat unread. "In fact," says a White House aide, "Carol never got it at all." Not so, counters...
...problem then became political. " HHS boxed us in," explains a White House official. "We were forced to go along with their draft. If we knocked down HHS and conformed to the President's views on states' rights, there'd be a second story saying we were restricting abortion, and one of our major constituencies would go nuts." As for motivation, White House aides see little mystery. " HHS has its own agenda," says a Clinton adviser. "It's full of abortion-rights ideologues who don't understand we're moving this issue their way as fast...
...coach in Pasadena (Calif.) Southwest Little League, the last time when girls play baseball before social pressure forces them into softball, I would always draft girls onto my hardball teams. My co-coach, a young Harvey Mansfield with more common sense, liked to draft girls because he thought they "civilized" the boys. I liked to pick girls because I like to win, and the girls were every bit as skilled, strong and tough as boys...
...Whichever is true, welfare reform is back on the agenda in state capitals and in Washington, meaning that a good many of those collecting checks all around the U.S. may eventually find themselves tossed into the job market. Last month a task force appointed by Bill Clinton completed draft recommendations for legislation aimed at a nationwide revamping of the system. At the center of any comprehensive plan, which the White House expects to send to Congress some time this year, will be the goal of ending most support payments after two years. After that, recipients would have to enroll...
...most impressive thing about Clinton's campaign pledge to "end welfare as we have known it" is that it came from a man who understands something about the complexities of welfare reform as we have known it. As head of the National Governors Association, he helped draft the last major piece of federal legislation to deal with the issue, the 1988 Family Support Act, which requires most recipients to take part in job-training programs. The 1988 act has been only modestly effective so far, which is one reason Clinton is likely to proceed warily. In his Jan. 25 State...