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Article: Tommy meets D.C. roadblocks on research
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- June 17, 2001
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Gail Collins
Tommy meets D.C. roadblocks on research
By GAIL COLLINS
Sunday, June 17, 2001
Remember back when governors were trendy?
Christie Whitman left New Jersey to put a moderate Republican face
on the Environmental Protection Agency. Two humiliating rebuffs from
the White House later, she's vanished.
Tommy Thompson was going to turn the lumbering Department of
Health and Human Services into an innovative 21st-century service
center for the upwardly mobile poor -- not a safety net, but a
trampoline!
But lately, he's been complaining about how hard it is to move the
bureaucracy. "You know, when I was governor, I'd have an idea in the
morning and I'd have people working on it in the ...