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News Clippings from the Dole Archives This document is from the collections at the Dole Archives, University of Kansas. http://dolearchives.ku.edu .... The HUtchinson News Sunday. .. July 30. 1995 Paie 3 competing .welfare bills By RObert Pear . states tO •move more of thek· ·welfare h~ for several weeb been strtiggliilg to liberal alternative to be offered by · · : In 1~87~ - as rut insurgent chall~ng. · · ... N.Y. Times News Service .. , reci~ients into ',jobs: At present, fewer broker a·compromise on welfare legisla- Senate Democrats: . .. ·. LAs Angeles . Times/ . I th ti 6 · ~ashing#m Post Ser\riee · ng · ~ presump ve nominee, Bush. , W:noHINGTON - President Clinton than 10 pe~cent of the 5 millio~ adul~ · tion. Bills approved by the House of. Dole's proposal, like the bill passed by . But ·the bulk of the list are emis­ and. Senate·fti · · · Rep~blican ' ~ leader- Bob· Dole · on welfare are. employed. · . , Representatives and by the ·senate the H ouse _in M. 8.11C h , •'i'foul_d give each • · .WASliiNGTON -'.::._ The Dote· for sarles itom• the chamber -of .. com­ towill o , er competingli 1pr.oposals · MQnday He will.. pfi'et s.·tates _incerit.ives. to me.·~ , . Fl.·nance Co min_ittee a_re; 1·n· .' gene.., -ral, · state· ·a · 1w'np · ·: slim· ' of federal, · .';money, .. ''presic;tenJ campa~pp ' -:&ently ': ~ . merce ·and country dub center or· .-· . pv.ercome ·a po 'tica ·impasse that has . an- am. b~tioW! new goal of puttm_g_s.n J- ·much tougher th_an Clinton's proposals. kn b celved a letter from. a potential con- the Republicim Party, with' a strong st8.11 d lti · 1 · 1· · · " · -r own· as a lock· grant, to· assist poor _ monthse we· a~;e · egis atlon .or . two s. tant.•al numbe. r of welfare ree1p1en and . would_ set more stringent work people. State- officials would have far : tributOr ) vho w'anted to know, how contingent . from Wall Streel . the game worked. ·• . · •.. : Tile honorary chalnnan of the · Th . , · mto JObs or programs that P.repare them reqwrements. more. discretion_· than they now have m·· · e two' men are scheduled to outline for work. States could choose a variety of Dole's proposal builds on the measure "I. know I· can't afford enough >to .Dole finance committee .is Max th~i.r proposals . in .Speeches to the strategies, including "workfare" or subsi- approved in May by the Senate Finance deciding ho~ to !!Be the money. ,get Italy;" the auth~r ·wrote, refer- . · Fisher, an 87-year-old Detroit :finan. ~atl~nal Governors' .Association, meet- dies to private employers to hire welfare Comniittee: A bloc of 24 conservative . But poor people would no longer have . ring to the ambas9ador's poSt there, cler who deserted the Democrats in mg m Burlington, Vt. Gov. , Tommy recipients. Republicans led }jy Sen. Phil Gramm a legal right, or entitlement, to as sis- "but how much -would I · ' 196.8 to support Richard . Th«;~~pson of Wisconsin, a Republican A senior administration official said the Texan who is ohe of Dole's chief tance, and the federal government would have to give for New U8- Nixon and who has been w~.o ·1s the group's incoming chairman, Clinton would also give states more flex- rivals for the ·party's ·presidential '·nomi- put'a cap 00 total Qpending, regardless of . 1and? Could y~u please , a ~jor GOP cash rain- . send me a complete price · maker ever since. · 8!lld he would work to line up support for ibility in running their welfare pro- nation, rebelled against that measure economic need. Dole's plan. · grams, a priority for governors from both forcing Dole to move to the right. in hi~ AI}. they gathered in. Vermont, gover- ''list?" .' ·· ·· . · The chairman John ::..~ "We don't ~ow if · he~ · ~01-an, a former 'eauror- Administration officials said parties as well as"" for Congressional search for a Republican consensus. nora of both .parties said they favored was joking or ·not," said · nian with Interests in oil Saturday th!lt Clinton, in an effort to Republicans. Aides to _. Dole said his plan would welfare refotni that left states with-the :;Howard· Wilkins, ()ne· of .. and manufacturing, recapture the . initiative on welfare, Dole, the- front-running candidate for , place him in the middle, between a eon- ·. most mo~ey available and the fewest .· ;the national ~C)-Chairmen . joined the Dole campafgn would announce steps to encourage the Republican presidential nomination, servative bill drafted by Gramm and a ·restrictions on how to.use it. •.of the Dole fmance com- . , .this year after serving : · mtttee. .: two years as the finance • · Probably not, and· Am- chairman for the Republi- ;. _'bassador Wilkins should Dole can National Committee. ;')mow. He raised $115 million for :· · Wilkins, a prosperous the party during his ten- . WWichlta buslnes;;man and real estate ure. '·investor, was named envoy to uie His senior lieutenants include ...1\letherlands in 1989 after contribut- Lodwrick Cook, the chairman of :· Jog $100,000 to the Republican Party Arco; Philip Anschutz, a Denver bil­ '·' during George Bush's 1988 presiden- llonaire who is trying to buy the Los ' ·tial campaign. Angeles Kings hockey team; Henry •. Requests for favors as blunt as Kravis, the New York investment . ~ ·' . ' ' the recent letter are rare, but they banker who recently hosted a Long many businesses and farms were being sold, are emblematic of the enviable posi- Island fund·raiser to celebrate Farms, businesses being rather than paSsed on to' heirS, to satisfY' federal lion Dole finds himself six months Dole's 72nd birthday - taking In esta~ taxes:as high as~ per~nt. before the first presidential prima- more than $300,000; Donald Marron, "The family -· loses its livelihood, the .family ry. The well-oiled Dole money rna- chairman of the brokerage house sold :to pay taxes, he said b~ emplo~ lose their jobs and the com- chine is raking In cash at a rate of PaineWebber Inc.; and · Georgette mu11ity suffers," he said. · . more than $100,0QO . ~ day, far out- Mosbacher, aspiring ~keup mag­ , WASHINGTON <AP)- Estate taxes would be ·'11le first$600,000 in assets in an estate npW are t stripping the fund-raising of any or. nate and wife of Robert Mosbacher, reduced ori f~y owned -. businesses, ranches exempt from estate taxes. Dole's bill would exempt his GOP competitors. Texas oilman, former commerce and farms under a measure introduced by Senate up to $i.5 inillion of assets in a family bWrlness in Dole's fund-raising prowes;; dem- secretary and Bush's 1992 campaign Majority Leader Bob Dole of Kansas and .co- which the heirs will have continued involverDent. onstrates once again that while love chairman. sponsored by Sen. Christopher Bond of Missouri. Family bUsiness assets over that limit. would be can generate modest amounts of po- The senior fund-raising group alSo At a P.SWS conference Friday, Dole said too . taxed at hliif the rate as other assets. lltlcal money, only the prospect of includes oilman T. Boone Pickens, ·.: succes;; - and spoils - biings in CEO Leslie Wexner of The Limited the really big bucks. Inc., former Transportation· Secre- -. /' "People . read the papers and tary Drew Lewis and Russell Meyer, A2 Tuesday, August 1, 1995 The Salina Journal • watch TV; they know who's going to a longtime Dole friend and Cessna ------------------------------------------------------------------ win," said zachaliah P. zachariah, Aircraft Co. executive. an enterprising Fort Lauderdale, To a greater extent than Dem<>­ F1a., cardiologist who serves as crats, Republican donors - 1111ii Dole's top F1ortda fund-raiser. those who solicit their donations.­ - "It's not about emotions. It's all view their contributions as InveSt· ,about who's winning and they want menis 'rather than as signs of Ideo-. to be part of the winning team." logical solidarity with the candidate, welfare recipients no longer would That team ~ attracted a blue- Dole aides say. The contributors Clinton, Dole favor have a legal right to assistance, chip list of Republican luminaries, want a stake, not a stateinenl and that Congress would provide a corporate titans and accomplished "We're In a strong position suice · different reforms · fixed amount of money each year, GOP fund·raisers,· all of whom see Senator Dole is the clear front-run­ regardless of economic need. in Dole the pa(ty's best chance to ner, and contributors are more like­ By VIC OSTROWIDZKI Dole would require welfare recip- recapture the White House. ly to view writing a check as a Hearat Newspapers ients to meet strict work require- . Some of them were Dole support- 50und investment," Dole campaign BURLINGTON, Vt . -President ments. In addition, states would ers when he last ran for president, spokesman Nelson Warfield said. Clinton and Senate Majority have the option of banning cash aid Leader Robert Dole, R-Kan., -to mothers under 18 and women squared off Monday over welfare, who have children while on-welfare. offering opposing blueprints for While some Democratic gover- reform, and the nation's gover- nors endorsed aspects of Dole's nors reacted to the plans along plan, most attacked it as a cut- I -··A THE WICHITA EAGLE Tuesday~-Au'";;l.-199s_._;_it party lines. and-run approach that would hand In speeches before the National over to the states welfare respon- Governors' Association, both Clin- sibilities without providing addi- DOle, Cliriton crack jokes ton and Dole said states should be tiona! federal assistance. allowed greater flexibility in ex- Tom Carper of Delaware en- perimenting with ways to reduce File photos dorsed the president's ·plan, say- about each other's health the welfare rolls. Sen. Bob Dole wants states to· President Clinton believes some. ing his party's governors want the But the two political leaders di- have free J'eln and to cut out a federal oversight Is needed in federal government to continue a deal with Phil Gramm everyday," verged over the duties of the feder- legal right to welfare.
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