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- <title>
- Mar. 22, 1993: At Last, a Full Cabinet
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 22, 1993 Can Animals Think
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 21
- NATION
- At Last, a Full Cabinet
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- <body>
- <p>Janet Reno breezes to confirmation as the first female Attorney
- General
- </p>
- <p> After Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood, neither the Clinton
- Administration nor its critics were in the mood for another
- imbroglio. So Dade County (Miami) prosecutor Janet Reno faced
- a Senate Judiciary Committee eager to accept her as the first
- woman Attorney General. She made the most of her opportunity.
- Reno opened with a folksy but appealing tribute to her parents
- and their stern self-reliance. Beyond declaring support for
- strong gun-control laws, she had little specific to say about
- policy. She stressed the need for social programs to keep
- children from turning to crime but also affirmed the necessity
- of punishment for "horrible" criminals. Republicans Arlen
- Specter and Orrin Hatch, ogres to feminists because of their
- hostile questioning of Anita Hill, gushed admiration for Reno,
- and the committee suspended its rules in order to vote
- immediately--and unanimously--for confirmation. So did the
- full Senate, 98 to 0, the next day. On Friday, Reno was sworn
- in, filling the last Cabinet chair.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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