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PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION
Clinton selects budget director
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President-elect Clinton has decided on House Budget Committee Chairperson Leon Panetta as budget director and is near final decisions on the rest of his economic team, transition and financial-community sources said yesterday.
Clinton also is expected to give top economic jobs to Robert Rubin, co-chairperson of the banking investment firm of Goldman, Sachs & Co. chairman of Theist Laurence Summers, a member of his transition team, the sources said.
had selected Texas Sen. Lloyd Bentens to be Treasury secretary and New York investment banker Roger Altman to be deputy secretary.
Rubin is expected to be White House economic security adviser, a new position. Summers is said to be the leading contender to be head of the Council of Economic Advisers. Sources earlier had indicated Clinton
Those formal announcements are expected later this week, said officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Panetta representative Barry Toivio said yesterday that the California Democrat had not heard a firm offer from Clinton for the budget spot.
But other sources said that the decision had already been made.
Sources earlier had said that Clinton
Panetta, 54, would bring to the job an intimate knowledge of the budget process. He has had a role in nearly every significant piece of fiscal legislation over the last decade. He has put a heavy emphasis on the need to reduce the deficit and is the author of a five-year proposal to erase federal
deficits with spending cuts and tax increases.
Bentsem, Altman and Panetta are definite decisions, said one Democritus.
The selections of Bentsen and Panetta were seen even as a signal to Congress of Clinton's willingness to work as a team with Congress. The appointments would also ease the way for Clinton's major initiatives.
It was not clear what other selections Clinton might announce this week, but Rubin and Summers seemed likely, the sources said.
Rubin was said to be the favorite for the economic-security post, which would be the domestic equivalent of the national security adviser's post.
Summers was thought to be Clinton's first choice for the Council of Economic Advisers.
But sources said that former Congressional Budget Office director Alice Rivlin and Robert Reich, the head of economic policy for the transition, might still be in the running.
Summers, 48, took a leave from the World Bank to help out in Clinton's transition. He was 1988 Democratic candidate. He hailed Dukakis' chief economic adviser.
Investment banker Rubin, 54, was a significant fund-riser to Clinton's campaign and has served as an informal adviser to the Arkansas governor. He has been with Goldman Sachs & Co. for 25 years.
Gay groups outline orders against ban
Meanwhile, invitations were going out for the Dec. 14-15 economic conference Clinton has scheduled in Little Rock. More than 200 leaders of business, labor, interest groups and academia are expected to attend.
The Associated Press
Gay groups and civil rights organizations have begun to draft sample executive orders to offer President-elect Bill Clinton's administration on how to end the military's ban on homosexuals.
Some of the proposals call for the creation of an advisory committee to assist the Department of Defense and anti-homophobia training for officers who would carry out the policy.
commit a sexual crime is unfair and inaccurate."
A presidential order also should restore health benefits, upgrade a less-than-honorable discharge and allow gays to re-enlist, one coalition says. Any new code of conduct should govern the sexual behavior of gay and straight soldiers, gay activists say.
"In inevitably, you are going to have situations of inappropriate conduct by heterosexuals and gay people. When it happens, they should be disciplined," said Mary Newcombe, attorney for former Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer, who was recently discharged from the National Guard in Washington state after disclosing her homosexuality "But making the presumption that only gay people will
More than 15,000 people have been discharged from the military since 1982 because they were gay. At least 300 others may face administrative discharge hearings, according to estimates by the Military Law Task Force of the National Lawyers Guild.
Clinton has said he planned to consult with military leaders and others to overturn the ban.
Los Angeles corporate consultant David Mixner, who served as a senior adviser to the Clinton campaign on gay and lesbian issues, said the presidential transition team was soliciting information on the ban from several federal agencies. Input from gay groups would be welcomed, he said.
The project's order would ban discrimination of gays in military recruitment, job assignments and promotion.
The Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, which Newcombe works for, and the Military Freedom Project, a Washington, D.C.-based coalition, are drafting sample executive orders.
Reforms to face early challenges
The Associated Press
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — From beginning to end, Bill Clinton made political reform a theme of his presidential bid, positioning himself as a reform-minded outsider.
Now comes the hard part: turn his promises first into legislation and then into law. Already, resistance is surfacing among both Republicans and Democrats in Congress, as well as among lobbyists and political action committees.
Clinton's biggest challenge in enacting his reform agenda may well come on the thorny issue of health care. But his will for reform is likely to be tested first on campaign finance and lobbying, where its ideas are more clearly defined.
"If we are going to get anything done we've got to clean house in Washington," said Bruce Reed,
Clinton's deputy transition director for domestic policy. He acknowledged considerable pressure on the Clinton camp to temper many of its reform ideas but predicted Clinton would hold fast to his centerpiece proposals.
Clinton's economic package will be his first priority. Some advisers favor waiting awhile before pushing campaign and other political reforms because of their desire to foster good relations with Congress.
But other Clinton advisers, particularly his political strategists, think he needs to deliver on his reform promises early to prove his resolve against special interests and to help woo supporters of Ross Perot.
In the campaign, Clinton proposed voluntary spending caps on House and Senate campaigns, with candidates who agree to limits getting some public financing.
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