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Politics
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The Battalion
Wednesday, January 20,1993
Texans flock to inaugural celebration
Some party, shop, sightsee while others
try to scrounge tickets to the ceremony
swearine-in tickets and ball tick- erab a cun 0 f ’
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - Thousands
of Texans have flocked to the na
tion's capital to celebrate the inau
guration of the first Democratic
president in 16 years.
They're sightseeing and party
ing and shopping.
Some of them also are desper
ately trying to scrounge tickets to
Wednesday's swearing-in ceremo
ny, inaugural parade or to one of
the inaugural balls.
And they're turning to their
Texas congressional offices —
even the Republican ones — to
get those prized tickets.
"It's pretty busy," said Ray Sul
livan, spokesman for Rep. Sam
Johnson, R-Dallas. "There's lots of
horse trading going on with
swearing-in tickets and ball tick
ets and so on."
" We're getting a lot of panicked
phone calls from our fellow Texas
offices asking for spare tickets."
Phil Duncan, chief of staff for
Amarillo Democrat Bill Sarpalius,
agreed.
"It's been just sheer bedlam,"
he said. ''Everybody's calling
everybody else looking for tick
ets."
"It would be funny if it weren't
so desperate."
Staffers in the state's 32 con
gressional offices were busy Tues
day greeting the hundreds of con
stituents dropping by, camera in
hand, to meet their representative.
grab a cup of coffee to ward off
the cool temperatures, or score
some inaugural tickets.
"We are kind of on a continual
open house basis, with coffee and
cookies for any constituents that
come through/' said Scott Suther
land, spokesman for Rep. Ron
Coleman, D-El Paso.
Members of Congress some
times got involved themselves in
the never-ending ticket hunt.
A Gonzales couple turned to
Rep. Greg Laughlin, D-West Co
lumbia, for inaugural ball tickets
after flying to Washington and
finding nary a ticket in sight.
"They came up here in a panic
and Greg made a couple of phone
calls and I guess they were at the
right time, the right place, to the
right people," said Laughlin's
spokesman Donze Lopez.
The staffers may be tired, but
spirits are high ... for Democrats.
"It's a nice feeling," said Elaine
Lang, press secretary for Lufkin
Democratic Rep. Charlie Wilson.
"There's a real thrill in the air."
Texas Gov. Ann Richards, in
town since Sunday, pronounced
the mood "euphoria" — a feeling
not shared by all.
"There ain't no euphoria here,"
grumbled a staffer for one Texas
House Republican, speaking on
condition of anonymity. "That's
for sure."
Euphoria wasn't the word
when Richards had an early ap
pearance Tuesday on CBS "This
Morning."
Baird apologizes for hiring illegal immigrants
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Attorney-general-desig
nate Zoe Baird apologized Tuesday for hiring
illegal immigrants and said she acted as a
mother instead of a lawyer when she broke
federal law to obtain care for her young son.
"It was a violation of the law," Baird told
the Senate Judiciary Committee. "Our decision
to hire the couple was wrong and I deeply re
gret it."
Baird recounted for the panel her difficulty
in finding the babysitter they wanted for their
child. She repeatedly asserted she was offering
explanations and not excuses.
"I was acting ... more as a mother than as a
person who would be sitting here designated
as attorney general," said Baird, 40, the
$500,000-a-year general counsel of the Aetna
Life & Casualty Company.
She and her husband, Yale law professor
Paul Gewirtz, paid a Peruvian woman and her
husband, who served as a driver for the family,
a total of $2,000 a month plus free room and
board, she testified.
Since being named by President-elect Clin
ton to head the Justice Department, Baird has
paid back Social Security taxes and $2,900 in
civil fines for hiring the couple.
She asked the committee to consider the vi
olation in the context of her overall career.
Committee chairman Joseph Biden, D-Del.,
said he would have opposed the nomination
had she not come clean.
"Everybody does not do it," Biden said. "It
is not technical."
"I think . . . people are fairly questioning
whether there is a class of people who hold
themselves above the law," he said. If she had
given excuses such as they were just following
a lawyer's advice, Biden said: "I would cer
tainly be opposed to you."
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, the panel's top
Republican, said the episode would not stand
in the way of Baird's confirmation by the full
Swarming issues
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sues during his campaign. Not
only did he promise to tax the
rich, but Clinton also talked about
cutting the military budget.
Clinton will not cut back the
military as much as he initially
said because of the recent military
involvement in the Persian Gulf,
Lewis said. The new president
will have to follow in George
Bush's footsteps in regards to Sad
dam Hussein, he said.
Edwards agreed, "Clinton will
ask for less cuts than the liberal
Democrats would like.
Clinton knows that Saddam
Hussein will challenge him and
that he [Clinton] will have to hang
tough."
James said, "Clinton will con
tinue to make military cuts no
matter what the situation with
Saddam Hussein."
Other expectations of the Clin
ton White House are that it will
have a completely different per
sonality than the Bush White
House did.
Lewis said that the Clinton ad
ministration will stress style over
substance.
"The Clinton White House's
strong point will be public rela
tions and communications, while
Bush >yas not good at tooting his
own horn but got the job done,"
he said.
James said the biggest differ
ence between the the two admin
istrations is attitudinal.
"Clinton will have more diver
sity of ethnicity, economic back
ground and viewpoints," he said.
The Bush White House is like a
"country club."
Edwards said Clinton is an ac
tivist and has a bigger public
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Senate. "I think you've put it behind you," he
said.
"You repented for doing wrong?" asked
Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C.
"Yes sir, I did," she replied.
"You won't do it again?"
"You can be sure of that."
Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, asked how
she could enforce the law that she herself
broke.
Baird said she could tell people "not to do
what I did" and that she didn't see the contra
diction he did. "I recognized that I did some
thing that was wrong," she said.
Baird was more general when pressed
about the policies of the still-forming adminis
tration.
One of the first priorities, she said, would
be passage of a comprehensive crime bill in
Congress that would make good on Clinton's
promise to put 100,000 more police officers on
the beat and a waiting period for handgun
purchases.
agenda than Bush did. "Clinton
sees the government as an agent
to improve the lives of Ameri
cans," l\e said.
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Democrats hope to see an im
provement in the state of the na
tion, Edwards said that attitudes
toward the new president will be
performance driven.
"For the sake of the country,
the Republicans want to see Clin
ton do well," Lewis said.
James said, "We are excited
about the prospect of the new
president. He's not a doctrinaire;
he wants to make things work in
reality, not theory."
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