Tangherlini Tapped to Stay On at GSA
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Making Government 'Simpler'
OK Senators Leery of Unfunded Tornado Relief
Boldly Go Where No Fed's Gone Before
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Education, Health and Housing: Making Do With Fewer Resources
November 16, 1996 By Rochelle L. Stanfield, Marilyn Werber Serafini EDUCATION DEPARTMENT linton wants to go down in history as the Education President, and for the moment anyway, Congress doesn't seem inclined to challenge that ambition. So Education should be a pretty comfortable spot during Clinton's second term. Whether Education Secretary Riley will ...
National Security: A Dramatic Makeover
November 16, 1996 erhaps not surprisingly, the calls began even before the debris was swept from the victory party. Secretary of State Christopher traveled to Little Rock, Ark., for a private meeting with Clinton the day after the election, one last errand after four years and nearly 700,000 miles of frequent flying. Defense ...
Endangered Government Cutters
November 1, 1996 Last fall the 28 House Republican freshmen who nicknamed themselves "the New Federalists" were urging their colleagues to ax Cabinet departments and balance the federal budget. A year later, a third of them are struggling. Several made The Washington Post's recent list of "GOP Frosh in Danger," among them: Charles ...
O'Leary's Travels
October 21, 1996 "Join the Energy Department and see the world." That may sound like a recruiting slogan, but it's actually part of a Republican campaign to remind voters of Energy Secretary Hazel R. O'Leary's controversial--and expensive--business trips abroad. The Energy Department's inspector general recently reported that O'Leary's 16 foreign trips to drum ...
Folded, Spindled . . .
October 5, 1996 NATIONAL JOUNRAL Vol. 28, No. 40 Democrats, Republicans and even Ross Perot have vowed to transform--and perhaps eliminate--the IRS. They cite inefficient management, ineffective modernization, intrusive collection methods. Yet some critics also say that many of the agency's problems are not its fault. roud, secretive, powerful--and, some charge, incompetent--the Internal ...
No Shutdown, Lots of Gripes
October 4, 1996 A budget impasse didn't shut down the government this time around, but Republicans once again failed to pass all 13 appropriations bills before the end of the fiscal year. That's got party stalwarts smoldering, and not just at Democrats. "We just have to take a good hard look at the ...
Top Secrets
September 14, 1996 NATIONAL JOUNRAL, Vol. 28, No. 37 uying a pair of chinos from Lands' End Inc., the popular mail-order catalog business, couldn't be easier these days. The company has a site on the World Wide Web, the multimedia corner of the Internet, that offers an electronic order form. Punch in your ...
NATO's New Horizons
September 14, 1996 NATIONAL JOUNRAL, Vol. 28, No. 37 ot long after the end of a high-level meeting in Warsaw this summer, Robert E. Hunter, the U.S. ambassador to NATO, marveled at the historic changes taking place throughout the alliance. Quietly and with relatively little fanfare, NATO's senior ministers were engineering a dramatic ...
A Tangled Web
September 7, 1996 NATIONAL JOURNAL, Vol. 28, No. 36 he Web Review, an electronic magazine, debuted on the Internet in September 1995 to wild fanfare. Reviewers praised the magazine's content and the snappy way its designers incorporated the multimedia capabilities of that corner of the Internet known as the World Wide Web. The ...
The End of Government
September 7, 1996 National Journal, Vol. 28, No. 36 n June, when congressional Democrats unveiled ``Families First,'' their new policy agenda, the most important part was written between the lines: an acknowledgment that a politician's place, these days, is at the margins. The Democrats contented themselves with a program to prevent teen pregnancy, ...
