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Wednesday, March 9. 1994
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Clinton announces new chief counsel
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The White House acknowledged additional contacts with federal regulators about the Whitewater investigation yesterday, even as President Clinton tried to still doubts by naming respected Washington attorney Lloyd Cutler as his chief counsel.
Clinton was naming Cutler at a late-afermon news conference. Cutler agreed to serve only on a temporary basis, up to 130 days, so he wouldn't have to sever ties with his law firm.
Cutler, 76, a pillar of Washington's legal establishment, made clear that he wasn't anxious to return to the same job he had held in the Carter administration.
"I've done it before, as you know," Cutler told reporters outside his home. "You don't look forward to it, but you do it. You're asked to do it, and you have to do it."
When Cutler's appointment was about to be announced, the White House acknowledged more contacts with regulators about Whitewater, raising further questions about whether the administration had tried to meddle in the federal investigatior.
Previously, the administration had confirmed contacts on three occasions.
"Based on what we know, there were some incidental
contacts and other follow-up conversations," one senior administration official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. "Nothing dealt with the substance of the Resolution Trust Corp. investigations." Asked how many additional contacts there were, the official said: "A few."
The official said the additional contacts had become known as a result of conversations and the examination of documents in the aftermath of subpoenas being served on administration officials by Whitewater special counsel Robert Fiske.
Clinton had said he wanted to fill the counsel's post with an individual of unquestioned integrity and experience who would help put his presidency back on track.
Cutler is known as the sort of lawyer to which business executives turn when they have serious problems. His recruitment by Clinton was a measure of the problems facing White House officials as a result of their mishandling of questions growing out of the Clintons' investment in an Arkansas real estate deal.
Six White House officials, including Cutter's predecessor, Bernard Nussbaum, and four Treasury officials are under subpoena in the Whitewater investigation.
Nussbaum resigned under pressure Saturday, criticized by many White House aides as lacking a solid political judgment and for making Clinton's problems worse.
Health care lobbyists converge on capital
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Four Connecticut psychologists surrounded Rep. Nancy Johnson as she made her way to Congress' first health-care reform drafting session, pitching their arguments amid the hubbub of elevators and corridors.
Mental health treatment, and particularly the kind of outpatient therapy that psychologists provide, should be covered under any new health plan, they urged.
"This is a huge problem in our society," said Daniel Abrahamson, director of a mental trauma treatment center in South Windsor.
Johnson, a Republican member of the Ways and Means subcommittee that has first crack at devising a new health-care plan, was firm. The government should not define health benefits but leave that to be fought out among medical professionals.
The 20-minute "walk and talk" lobbying session was one of hundreds of visits that took place yesterday on Capitol Hill as Congress got down to the business of rewriting the nation's
health coverage.
In addition to the psychologists from across the country, more than 300 dentist pushed to preserve the tax deductibility of dental coverage; about 200 restaurant owners pressed their argument against forcing employers to pay for health care; and 500 members of the American Medical Association met to prepare for a similar lobbying blitz today.
"Timing is everything," said Wendy Webster, representative for the National Restaurant Association, whose lobbyists wore large stickers reading, "NO Mandates." The association also began airing television ads that warned that jobs would be lost if restaurants were forced to pay for health benefits because the industry was labor-intensive and many workers had no coverage.
And the association has activated its "key contact" list — a database of restaurant owners across the country who have personal friendships with members of Congress. One is Stephen Elmont, owner of a Boston restaurant, who has played host to Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., at his establishment
and raises campaign money for him.
and raises campaign money for him. "When it's all said and done, (Sen. Edward M.) Kennedy and Kerry want to know what it's going to do to my restaurant," Elmont said. "Politics is local."
The psychologists were clearly concerned that their battle is unhill.
"Things become very complicated when you have this issue hitting Capitol Hill," said Bryant Welch, the American Psychological Association's chief legislative strategist. Clinton's bill, which provided health coverage, is increasingly seen as a dead letter, and "the landscape is constantly changing" as costs become the controlling factor.
When Johnson, a Republican, suggested that psychologists fight their battles in the health-care marketplace and not in Congress, Welch contended that market forces already had directed excessive resources into private mental hospitals. Psychiatrists and hospitals "have a much more powerful lobbying and marketing force" than other, lower-cost segments of the mental health-care field, he said.
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