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...other day, the obscenely long list unwinding from Michigan Governor John Engler's hands would not be one he would be eager to display. It seemed to extend forever. Aid to Families with Dependent Children was one entry; food stamps was another. In all, it contained 335 items, each a federal program. To Engler and his gubernatorial colleagues, each also represented a different federal bureaucracy to which he had to kowtow; a different process in which he had no say; and a specific amount of money he had to pay out of his state's treasury, whether he liked...
...Engler was grinning broadly. He was parading the specially prepared parchment not as a catalog of woes, but the way a general might display his enemy's head on a pike. Welfare entitlements, he announced, were dead. ``Over the weekend,'' he later joked, ``we went through the denial, the mourning and the wake.'' Nor did his diagnosis seem farfetched...
...states pay for them (otherwise known as unfunded mandates), became the first major chunk of the Gingrichian program to pass both houses of Congress. Clinton, for his part, announced that he was reducing 271 mostly unilateral federal programs to 27 ``performance partnerships'' with the Governors. Of Clinton's proposal, Engler said it was a good start. He knew Congress would outdo that...
...undertakings, at some point in the late 1960s or early '70s the pendulum had swung too far. There was, it seemed, no part of life too small for the Feds to micromanage. Or to mismanage, since most programs were fought over by multiple sparring congressional committees. Creative Governors like Engler, Wisconsin's Tommy Thompson and Massachusetts' William Weld, who have since been credited with operating ``laboratories of democracy,'' felt more like lab rats, constantly scurrying to Washington to procure federal waivers for any innovation. California's Pete Wilson and Florida's Lawton Chiles sued federal authorities for funds...
Just as Governor Christine Todd Whitman (R-N.J.) did last month in her response to President Clinton's State of the Union Address, Weld alluded to the successes of many Republican governors, including Whitman, Wilson, John Engler (R-Mich.) and Tommy Thompson...