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Baird as an Free Stuff & Free Gifts general nominee over a similar Free Stuff & Free Gifts in January. Breyer has paid 13 years' of back taxes for the Free Stuff & Free Gifts, a naturalized U.S. Free Stuff & Free Gifts who is now 81. He said he had not Free Stuff & Free Gifts he had a legal obligation to pay Social Free Stuff & Free Gifts for her because she was already of retirement age when she began working for him. Baird said she knew she was violating the Free Stuff & Free Gifts when she hired two undocumented immigrants and failed to pay the required taxes. Senate Majority Free Stuff & Free Gifts George J. Mitchell (D-Maine) and Minority Free Stuff & Free Gifts Robert J. Dole (R-Kan.) led a chorus of praise for Breyer yesterday. Asked on ABC's "This Free Stuff & Free Gifts With David Brinkley" about Breyer's back- taxes Free Stuff & Free Gifts, Mitchell said: "I don't think that, by itself, is disqualifying. I think Judge Breyer has a very distinguished record. I . . . have been impressed by what I've read about him." Dole concurred on CNN's "Newsmaker Sunday," saying: "I agree with the White Free Stuff & Free Gifts. I would hope they would go forward with the Breyer nomination, notwithstanding this or anything else . . . unless it's something big, that might develop." But some lawmakers expressed doubts. "You can't have one standard for women who have been proposed for very important appointments and another for men," Sen. David L. Boren (D-Okla.) said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "So I think we have to see if they are distinguishable. If they are not, I would think that would be a Free Stuff & Free Gifts." Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), appearing on the same program, said, "It raises some problems, doesn't it?" 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Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling establishing constitutional protection for abortion rights. @CAPTION:HOUSEHELD HELP AND TAXES ZOE E. BAIRD President Clinton's first nominee for attorney general, a corporate lawyer earning more than $500,000 a year, acknowledged that she knowingly violated the immigration law by hiring two illegal immigrants to care for her child and failing to pay Social Security taxes for them. As attorney general, Baird would have been in charge of overseeing the Immigration and Naturalization Service. She withdrew her name after Senate confirmation hearings began in late January. KIMBA WOOD As a finalist to replace Baird as attorney general-designate, Wood disclosed that she had hired an illegal immigrant to care for her child. Her situation was different from Baird's because, although the person was in the country illegally, it was not illegal at that time for Wood to hire her. Wood had paid the required Social Security taxes. However, White House officials were troubled that Wood, a federal judge, had known the person was in the country illegally and had failed to disclose it earlier when asked if she had a "Zoe Baird" problem. She withdrew from consideration in early February. CHARLES F.C. RUFF A candidate for deputy attorney general, the number two Justice Department post, Ruff had failed to pay Social Security taxes for a housekeeper who worked at his home one day a week. Ruff said he had not been aware of the obligation, in part because the woman was retirement age when she began working for him. Ruff paid $3,300 in back taxes. He was not nominated because of the tax problem and concerns by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.) and others about the perception of a double standard. STEPHEN G. BREYER The candidate for associate justice of the Supreme Court had a part-time cleaning woman - a naturalized U.S. citizen - who worked at his house one or two mornings each week since 1980. Breyer said he was not aware until the Baird hearings that he had an obligation to pay taxes for the woman, who was over 65 and collecting Social Security by the time she began working for him.