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Monday, January 22, 2001
Bush; Congress Get Down to Business
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The Bush admin
istration gets off to a heady start this
week with promotion of the president’s
$1.6 trillion tax plan in the Senate.
President Bush picked up a Democratic
sponsor, but also got Democratic warn
ings that he faces trouble if he ignores
their priorities.
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Bush must also deal with the insis
tence of his former rival for the GOP
presidential nomination, Sen. John
McCain, that campaign finance be one
of the first items on the congressional
agenda.
The Arizona senator and his
Democratic ally, Sen. Russell Feingold
of Wisconsin, are to introduce their bill
limiting campaign contributions on
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Monday, and Bush is to confer with
McCain on Wednesday.
Also on Monday, Bush is expected to
meet with congressional Republican
leaders. Separately, Senate Banking
Committee Chairman Phil Gramm, R-
Texas, joined by Sen. Zell Miller, D-Ga.,
are announcing plans to introduce
Bush’s massive 10-year tax relief pro
posal. White House aides said the
details of that across-lhe-board tax cut
proposal should emerge when Bush
submits his budget next month.
Miller’s press secretary, Joan
Kirchner, said Miller had campaigned
on being “a tax-cutting senator like he
was a tax-cutting governor. This was a
great opportunity to do both.”
Other Democrats, meanwhile,
repeated (heir contention that the plan
is overly ambitious and that Congress’
first duty is to prepare a budget that
ensures fiscal discipline and reduction
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of the national debt.
“The one that President Bush is
proposing is much too large and may
spend money that we really don’t
have,” Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn.,
said on ABC’s “This Week.”
White House Chief of Staff Andrew
Card, on CNN’s “Late Edition,” said
Bush would work with McCain for cam
paign finance legislation that is “fair
across the board,” and contains “pay
check protection” that gives union
members the right to withhold dues
going to political donations.
But Bush’s priorities are education,
tax cuts and military readiness, he said.
Senate Minority Leader Tom
Daschle of South Dakota said on ABC
that paycheck protection, strongly
opposed by organized labor, was “cum
bersome and incredibly impractical”
and would face a fight.
McCain, on NBC’s “Meet the Press,”
said he was starting a grassroots cam
paign in states of legislators who oppose
his legislation, and he insisted that his
bill must get a vote by the end of
March. “I believe we can work together
on this, but we know that delay is
death.”
The Senate on Saturday quickly con
firmed seven members of Bush’s
Cabinet, but hopes of pushing through
legislative initiatives quickly could be
stymied by a floor battle over the nom
ination of former Sen. John Ashcroft, R-
Mo., to be attorney general. Daschle
said Sunday he did not support a fili
buster over the Ashcroft nomination,
but Democrats will want floor time to
explain why they think Ashcroft is too
conservative for the job.
Ashcroft is expected to be confirmed
eventually, with all 50 Republicans and
some Democrats in support.
Bush also plans to move quickly to
lay out his education package, including
more school testing, holding schools
more accountable for performance,
boosting literacy and, most controver
sial, expanding school voucher pro
grams.
Card said vouchers “won’t be the top
priority” of the administration but will
be a tool used to help children trapped
in failing schools.
Lieberman said he doubted “we can
find a meeting of the minds on the ques
tion of so-called vouchers” under which
money is diverted from public schools
to send pupils to the school of their
choice.
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Chancellor List
To Remain Secret
N.C. Central faculty are
protesting Molly Broad's
decision to keep chancellor
names under wraps.
Bv Monica Chen
Staff Writer
UNC-system President Molly Broad
decided Friday not to release the names
of the three N.C. Central University
chancellor finalists over protests from
the N.C. Central Faculty Senate.
Faculty Senate Chairman George
Conklin made a request to Broad in a
letter Tuesday for the finalists to be
introduced in the next Faculty Senate
meeting, where an open forum would
allow professors to question the finalists.
“Academic setting thrives on open
ness and discussion and consensus,” said
Conklin, also a member of the search
committee.
“I do not feel that the committee has
communicated well with the communi
ty as a whole.”
Broad declined to attend the meeting
with the finalists.
“When I met
with the search
committee, I made
it very clear on the
issue of confiden
tiality,” Broad said.
“It would be
entirely inappro
priate for us to
spring this on the
candidates now.”
N.C. Central
“Molly Broad could renegotiate
with the candidates, and they
could decide whether they want
to go public or not. ”
George Conklin
N.C. Central Faculty Senate Chairman
Board of Trustees Chairman William
Smith said he would not support the
publicizing of the three candidates.
“I respect the faculty’s desire to
know,” Smith said. “We gave the candi
dates our word that it’s going to be a
confidential search, and 1 don’t feel
good going back on my word.”
Conklin said the confidentiality rule
was set before the search committee
began the selection process and that the
issue was never brought up thereafter.
But Conklin said the entire commit
tee would be happy with any of the
three finalists for chancellor.
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“On the other hand, that doesn’t
mean that everybody will feel that way,”
he said. “Molly Broad could renegotiate
with the candidates, and they could
decide whether they want to go public
or not."
An N.C. statute allows public institu
tions to close meetings where personnel
decisions are discussed. The media has
long pushed to get high-profile search
es open, including the hunt that brought
James Moeser to UNC-Chapel Hill.
School officials, shielded by the N.C.
law, say opening the searches could
deter some candidates wary of displeas
ing their current institution.
Meredith and St. Augustine’s
Colleges, private institutions in Raleigh,
have chosen to release finalists’ names.
East Carolina University’s Faculty
Senate voted on a similar resolution at
the start of its current chancellor search,
but it failed.
N.C. Central Student Governmeht
Association President Timothy Peterkih,
also a member of the search committee,
said he respects the committee’s rules
but that the public would like to meet
the finalists.
“There will not be a huge impact,” he
said. “But what
impact there will
be would be posi
tive."
But Broad said
that the impact
would be negative
for the candidates.
“We lose candi
dates if their
names are public,”
she said. “It’s very
destabilizing for
their campus once their colleagues
know that they are applying.” ,
Broad also said the search committee
knew about the confidentiality rule before
they met. “I presume (Conklin) was there
when I was there in the meeting with the
Board of Trustees,” Broad said. ,
But Conklin maintains that the final
ists’ names should be released.
“The public’s business should be con
ducted in public.”
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