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Show The Salt Lake Tribune NATION/WORLD Saturday, February 25, 1995 GOPSteps Back on Welfare Plan LOS ANGELES TIMES WASHINGTON — Republicans have decided to drop one of form. Dropping the permanent ban on cash benefits for children of they lived with their parents or guardians. the provisions of their welfare-reform plan that the White House and congressional Democrats had considered most onerous — mak- go further,” Ford said. He suggested that the Republicans ing teen mothersandtheir babies per ly for cash should adopt the Democratic ap- teen pregnancy provisions were harsh but necessaryto discouraging out-of-wedlock births. fifty years. . The Ways and Means Committee is expected next week to consider and then vote on the central tenets of the sweeping GOP welfare plan, which is being whipped into shape to fulfill the Republican promiseto bring all aspects of the Contract With America to a vote in the first 100 days of Congress. The GOP measure wouldstill bar states from using federal money to provide cashbenefits to unwed mothers under 18, but once those mothers turned 18, states could provide them with cash benefits. Democrats had Legal experts said the Surveillance Camera Helpsin Arrest After 4 Attacks on Clinic rammed throughtheglass door of an abortion clinic early Friday, the fourth attack on theclinic this year. Ricky Lee McDonald,38, of Albuquerquewas captured on video by a surveillance camera and arrested at a bar hours later, authorities said. He was charged in all fourattacks. Noonewasinjuredin the latest attack on the Abortion & Reproductive Health Services clinic, whichis on the first floor of an office building. The glass door was shattered but the clinic — emptyat the time — sustained no other damage. The shoppingcart contained a can of flaming solvent that was quickly extinguished. At his hearing Friday, McDonald gave U.S. Magistrate William DeatonJr. the finger and refused to answer the judge. He wasordered held without bail pending a hearing Monday. McDonald will betried under a 1994 federal law that makesit a crime to block access to an abor‘tion clinic, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Mary Catherine McCul‘loch. Healso was charged under a federal arson law. Hefaces up to 26 yearsin prison if convicted on all charges. In January, chains and pad‘locks were found twice on the -clinic entrance. A small fire was «set near the clinic’s entrance in =the third incident, also in Janulary, authorities said. ‘Canada,U.S. Sign ‘Open Skies’ Accord Adjustable BED SALE FIRM LUXURY Twin Full Queen $39 °59 *69 extra lon Twin Bed with Single Massagewith Ultra /|Rest Firm Mattress Queen Size Single Massagewith Ultra Rest Firm PILLOW TOP MATTRESS Twin $422 EA. Full $437 EA. Queen $152 « King $459 EA. 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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A flaming shopping cart was ruling ing the taking of sworn state served as president. represents a said Rep. Harold Ford, D-Tenn., the ranking Democraton the subcommittee that drafted the primary provisions of welfare re- wouldstop all discovery — Theruling by a judge in Little Rock, Ark., who previously had delayed any trial while Clinton Sale Extended Thru Saturday! been particularly opposed to the idea of permanently denying cash benefits to children born to unwed mothers. Teen-age mothers would havebeeneligible for cash assistance only if they had additional children after turning 18. “That was one of the meanest things” in the Republican plan, next several months or longer Continues .... hood that somekind of negotiated the American welfare system in matter for the claims DAY SALE provision,’ Johnson said. “The great majority [of the membersof the committee] were uncomfortable with lifetime ban.” Theconcessionraisesthelikeli- promisesto be the keyissueof the current Congress andis likely to result in the biggest changes to WASHINGTON — Inadeci sion that halts legal proceedings in a potentially explosive sexual harassment case against Presi dent Clinton, a federal judge ruled Friday that attorneys for Paula Jones may not question the major victory for Clinton's attor neys in preventing further disel sures in the politically charged president, former Arkansas state troopers or anyone else who might have information about her PRESIDENTS benefits. The decision to soften the penalties for teen mothers and their children was madeduring closeddoor meetings of the Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee this week, according te Nancy Johnson, R-Conn., a senior memberofthe panel. “That was a particularly nasty the safety net for poor families LOS ANGELES TIMES Some conservative Republi- cans, however, are boundtoresist the decision becausetheyfelt the new welfare system might be possible. The debate on overhauling Harassment CaseAgainst Clinton Is Blocked proach, which would provide cash benefits to teen mothers provided teen mothersis “a major step for the Republicans, but they should AS ° uty . em Oy Ce |
