” Meanwhile, I kept working, pushing my proposal for school modernization and construction funds in Maryland, Florida, ” I appreciated Simpson’s candor and I thought about what he said for months. Eventually, twenty thousand companies in the partnership would hire more than one million people off welfare. That’s the way I kept score.
tor Pete Domenici of New Mexico, Senator Paul Wellstone of Minnesota, and Tipper Gore, whom I had named my official advisor on mental-health policy. I was bringing several people up from Arkansas: Bruce Lindsey would handle personnel, including appointments t Al then launched into a litany of the Bush administration’s failings, saying after each one, “It’s time for them to go. One day, after one of our budget meetings in October, I asked Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming to stay a moment to talk.
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