HILLARY LASHES OUT: DUBYA ‘TURNS BACK CLOCK' Sunday,March 25,2001 By KENNETH LOVETT

Hillary Clinton stepped up her attacks on President Bush yesterday. N.Y. Post: Veronique Louis

CORNING - In her harshest attack yet, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday accused President Bush of trying to "turn back the clock 50 or 60 years." "It's not just trying to turn back the clock on the Clinton administration; they want to turn the clock back on the Roosevelt administration," Clinton said.

The former first lady has recently stepped up her public attacks on Bush, perhaps hoping to shift the focus away from the controversies from her husband's last-minute pardons and her sagging poll numbers.

Speaking yesterday to a group of rural Democrats, Clinton ripped the new president's actions thus far on the environment, education, health care, taxes and labor.

She cited his flip-flop on a campaign pledge to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions and his signing of a law that blocks tough ergonomic standards for workers pushed through by President Clinton at the end of his term.

And she again blasted word that he is looking to cut funding for day-care programs and his recent stated opposition to any patients' bill of rights legislation that fails to limit legal challenges.

"The president's been on a charm offensive, but his administration is on a harm offensive," Clinton said. "The new administration is not just attempting to reverse the last eight years of progress and prosperity, they want to reverse the last 50 or 60 years," she added to applause.

She charged that Bush's $1.6 trillion tax-cut plan would lead the country "back to the days of deficits, debt and high interest rates."

Clinton said she favors an immediate, modified tax cut to help stimulate the slowing economy, which Bush indicated Friday he might consider.

But she said Bush is wrong to ask Congress to adopt a tax plan before seeing his overall budget proposal.

"As some budget details leak out, what we're finding out is that everything we believe will help make us richer, stronger and smarter in the long run is being cut," Clinton said.

The White House did not immediately return calls for comment.

Meanwhile, the two leading Democratic gubernatorial candidates also attended the annual Democratic Rural Conference looking to secure support from an upstate faction they say played a big role in the election of Democrats Clinton and Sen. Charles Schumer.

In a rousing speech, Andrew Cuomo, the former U.S. Housing and Urban Development secretary, called for Congress to allow the state to enter into a regional dairy compact that guarantees farmers a minimum price for their milk.

New York City officials fear that joining the compact will cause milk prices at the store to skyrocket.

Meanwhile, Comptroller Carl McCall took a shot at Cuomo - his likely primary challenger - for never having been elected to public office.

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