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- <text id=91TT0350>
- <title>
- Feb. 18, 1991: Business Notes:Government
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Feb. 18, 1991 The War Comes Home
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 57
- Business Notes
- GOVERNMENT
- Not Labor's Lady
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Political honeymoons seldom begin as auspiciously as Lynn
- Martin's. Last week the Senate voted 94 to 0 to confirm the
- five-term Illinois Congresswoman, who was defeated in a race
- for the U.S. Senate last November, as George Bush's new Labor
- Secretary.
- </p>
- <p> A fiscal conservative who is a moderate on social issues,
- Martin, 51, built a reputation as a Republican maverick by
- voting to override Bush's vetoes of bills raising the federal
- minimum wage and guaranteeing family and medical leave for
- workers. Despite those votes, organized labor isn't happy. "Her
- voting record has not reflected a sensitivity to the needs of
- workers," complained Lane Kirkland, president of the 14
- million-member AFL-CIO. Business groups such as the U.S. Chamber
- of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers
- welcomed her appointment.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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