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i f'AUON ’age 9 receiver vho had ^SU free 'chdown esulting Know- »out how ferent if rere still Aggies, sn’t the Twelfth s nega- rerning vas the li to get J Hig is nd this ■thing I me. So ’t play his life, »r 127 oblem ad as is he )ur in seven, i luck e leg- f Cap- was a ng his and (cause t and (body ule. ibler oants that bout eone dfied 'Ught ance out beer ne. I who rity as Jer- and lent on’t ;ing ays ood )0t- ifth am- the jn’s ;er- ird, ant ing vid ill- er- he ies in er js- 20 a- tl- is in ’s c- IS d y il e j Tuesday* September 5, 1995 Nation Page 11 • The Battalion Senators tackle welfare reform □ The GOP is still divided on eliminating cash benefits to unmarried teen-age mothers. WASHINGTON (AP) — Working behind the scenes last month, Republicans settled some of the disputes that kept the Senate from overhauling anti-poverty programs and requiring single mothers to work jn return fora monthly welfare check. But an emotional sticking point - and a politically risky issue for Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole — remains as lawmakers return this week and try to close a deal on welfare reform, the cornerstone of the OOP’s social agenda. Some conservatives, led by GOP presi dential contender Phil Gramm of Texas, continue to insist that the legislation bar unmarried teen-age mothers from receiving cash support as a way of discouraging out- of-wedlock births. Other conservatives, including anti-abor tion forces, say cutting off these welfare checks will force young women to have abor tions and increase the likelihood that they will not finish high school. Presidential politics, Democratic opposi tion, and the GOP rift over illegitimate births forced Dole, R-Kan., to postpone de bate on his welfare bill last month. Dole, who is also seeking the Republican nomination for president, has since worked out several compromises to appease critics, who range from GOP moderates to Christ ian conservatives. Dole’s concessions include a ban on aid to immigrants, demanded by Gramm, and for moderates, an exemption from mandatory work requirements for mothers of children under age 1. But some critics remain skeptical, and the Senate’s 46 Democrats are largely united in denouncing the legislation as the “Home Alone” bill because it has no guarantee of child care for single mothers who would be required to work. Sen. Bob Dole “Dole has got himself a real dilemma,” says Gary L. Bauer, president of the Family Research Council, a conservative research and advocacy group devoted to domestic poli cy and family issues. On the one hand, he said, Dole is under pressure from conservatives like himself and Gramm to use the welfare bill to send a tough message to teen-age mothers who get pregnant and ask taxpayers to support their children. “Subsidizing illegitima cy is a recipe for perpetuat ing welfare dependency,” Bauer and other conserva tives, including the Christ ian Coalition’s Ralph E. Reed Jr., told Dole in a re cent letter. Dole must also satisfy more moderate Senate Re publicans, who oppose pro hibitions on aid to teen agers and children bom to women already on welfare. If he leans to the right, it’s not clear that Dole will have the majority he needs, Bauer said. But if Dole slights conservatives, it’s also not clear that he’ll have the votes to push the bill through. Bauer believes it would be a disaster for both Dole and President Clinton, who promised three years ago to “end welfare as we know it,” if the Senate is unable to write a bill that can be signed into law. The House approved its welfare overhaul in March. Sen. Lauch Faircloth, a conservative North Carolina Republican, said voters have told him, as he crisscrossed the state over the summer recess, that they expect welfare reform this year. “It’s the one issue that they want some thing done about,” he said. “And when they talk about welfare reform, they’re not taking about new programs, new giveaways. They want more work, more family orientation, more things that bring the families together.” In the meantime, Gramm and Faircloth continue to hold firm to their demands that Dole tilt his bill to the right. “We have a very strong disagreement (with Dole) on the whole issue of giving peo ple more and more money to have more and more children,” Gramm said. “If we could have a united Republican position we could be successful.” Gramm said Dole’s bill fails to fulfill the GOP campaign promises of 1994, when Re publicans took control of the House and Sen ate. “It’s not as if I’m asking Dole to support something alien to our philosophy; it’s what we promised we would do in tKe election.” “We have euphemized and compromised too much in federal government, and in Con gress we have euphemized, compromised and subsidized until it’s time to cut something cold, flat, stop it,” added Faircloth. He referred to his push to end the automatic increase in cash payments that women on welfare receive when they have additional children. Dole’s legislation would leave that kind of decision to the states, while giving them re sponsibility for designing cash welfare, child care and job training programs. "It is a cleverly concocted scam that does not do a single thing." — Robert Greemtein director, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Initially, the bill had no requirement that states continue to spend any of their own money on welfare. But in the face of criti cism from GOP moderates. Dole said he would rewrite the plan to require states to spend at least some money on welfare for the first two years. Dole’s plan, however, is merely cosmetic, according to the Center on Budget and Pol icy Priorities, a liberal research and advo cacy group. “It is a cleverly concocted scam that does do not do a single thing,” said the center’s di rector, Robert Greenstein. MAIL BOXES ETC. 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Nancy Adams, 216 MSC. • People with disabilities, please call 845-1515 to inform us of (3^- any special needs. We would like to serve you to the best of A our ability. J F.S. taxpayers giving millions to Olympic Games The government is laying for trash pickup, recycling, security and transportation. Some iave estimated the total amount at $92 million. ATLANTA (AP) — Even if you haven’t personally spent a dime yet for a ticket, T-shirt or souvenir trinket, you’re helping Atlanta pay for the 1996 Olympic Games - through your federal tax dollars. Though the Games them selves are privately funded from sources including televi sion rights, corporate sponsor ships and ticket sales, the fed eral government is pitching in tens of millions of dollars worth of services that are crucial to their success. The biggest expenditures: -$35 million for security, car ried out mainly by the military. - $28 million for buses and other transportation assistance. Federal agencies also will be involved in trash pickup, recy cling, testing energy technology, bicycle trail construction and en vironmental protection, among other areas. An aide to Vice President A1 Gore, whose office is coordinating the federal government’s Olympic activities, said he did not know the total amount of money the various agencies are spending. Some estimates have put the fig ure as high as $92 million. The state of Georgia is spend ing more than $150 million on public buildings that will be used during the Games, though no state tax money is going di rectly to the Olympics. Atlanta and other local governments are spending about $90 million on projects related to the Olympics. Olympics officials and their supporters in Congress defend the federal spending as neces sary for a national event that will attract thousands of foreign visitors. Though the Olympics are in Atlanta, they say, they re ally are America’s games. “We as a nation have never been able to achieve perfect sym metry between paying taxes and receiving federal benefits,” said ( Jack Quinn, Gore’s chief of staff. “You in Georgia pay tax dollars to build roads ip Idaho, and there’s no getting around that. Sen. Paul Covordell, R-Ga., an ardent supporter of the secu rity expenditures, agreed. “You have a world event in your nation, you accept responsi bility for those visitors,” Coverdell said. “They don’t just drop out of the sky into one jurisdiction. They’re coming to the U.S.” The federal spending has drawn some harsh criticism, no tably from Sen. John McCain, R- Ariz., who has for two years tried to force Atlanta to repay the federal government if the Olympics turn a profit. But McCain has been unable to build up much support for his cause. His most recent Olympic bill failed in the Sen ate last month by a whop- mi ping 80-20 vote. Such a vote flies in the face of efforts to rein in the federal budget, said Pete Sapp, spokesman for the National Taxpayers Union. “I think Senator McCain’s proposal was a fair and mod- — est one,” Sftpp said. “If it was for something less Mom-and-ap- ple-pie, it would have been ap proved right away.” Sapp said much of the federal spending for the Games is spread hut and hidden deep within the thicket of agency budgets, making it virtually impossible for the pub lic to know exactly what the gov- emment is doing. “If it weren’t hidden and if it were plain, I’d wager we’d be spending far less on it, if not zero,” he said. “There are things we should spend public money on, but they shouldn’t lie apd say they’re not doing it,” said Melissa Metcalfe, head of the public interest group Common Cause in Georgia. Billy Payne, the Atlanta Com mittee for the Olympic Games president, sees no contradiction between the federal spending and his pledge to put on a pri vately financed Games. “Inside the venues is our re sponsibility,” Payne said. Other areas, he said, only government can handle. "You can call it a private thing, but this is a show case for the United States." — Allan Lipsett spokesman for Newt Gingrich And amid his demands for shrinking the federal budget, even House Speaker Newt Gin grich supports the Olympic spending. “You can call it a private thing, but this is a showcase for the world for the United States,” said Gingrich spokesman Allan Lipsett. Gingrich, whose congression al district is just north of At lanta, has helped with every re quest made by the Olympics, Lipsett said. “It has not been a blank check” to the Atlanta commit tee, he said. “If it’s something a federal agency can do, he’s helped get that through.” What are the Most Powerful Words In Your Permanent Record? 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