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...President Clinton announced a proposal to make public the errors committed by hospitals. This plan, according to TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson, has teeth. "These changes could become part of a patients' bill of rights," says Thompson. Since the NAS report was released, he adds, Clinton vowed repeatedly to adopt the measures suggested by the academy; almost every NAS recommendation has made it into this blueprint...
...were in the members' lounge when Bush aide Terral Smith walked in. "He sat down between us and said, 'We need y'all to have a meeting today to vote'" on the bill containing full-family sanctions. As Maxey tells it, Smith then said, "We think we need to adopt the Governor's welfare reform. The Governor needs sanctions to protect himself against Pat Buchanan in the primaries." Smith says he told them only that Buchanan would have a "heyday" with their welfare proposal...
McKean said while PSLM supports the Pennsylvania protesters, PSLM has no immediate plans to adopt similar tactics...
...must adopt the same leadership position which it voluntarily took on when it initiated the bombing campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999. Pointing fingers while the Kosovars suffer won't help other nations take up the task. The U.S., while continuing to urge the E.U. and NATO member nations to share in the burden of policing in the area, must also lead by example. Blaming other nations won't erase the fact that the U.S. has taken it upon itself to be a world leader, and now must bear the consequences...
...promises of miraculous, sweeping tax cuts that benefit all Americans and somehow hurt no one. That's the unlikely formula surplus-happy Democrats and Republicans are selling on Capitol Hill, and so far the Republicans have triumphed on at least one front. Wednesday, the House of Representatives voted to adopt the Republican-sponsored Marriage Tax Elimination Act, which would cost the government $182 billion and return an average of $1,400 to the pockets of married couples each year. President Clinton has vowed to veto the act, but House Republicans are chalking up a victory anyway. "This has been...