Word: bans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...free tickets or free vacations. Seeking to upgrade their greasy public image, House members voted overwhelmingly to impose a nearly complete ban on accepting gifts from lobbyists. (The Senate has already approved a similar but less stringent ban on its members.) Representative Waldholtz, one of the ban's biggest backers, skipped the debate...
...permission to fish for shark among the islands. We were suddenly disturbed by the sight of hundreds of shark fins drying on lines strung above the vessel's main deck. That was only a hint of what the future was to bring. Now, because of overfishing, there is a ban on lobstering and the sea cucumber is threatened...
...assist states in paying for water and sewage treatment plants will be eliminated. The EPA's influence in curbing radon in drinking water and cancer-causing substances in food will be eviscerated. Guidelines and programs to decrease air pollution will be scrapped or reduced in funding. Even the ban on chlorofluorocarbons--the chemical responsible for ozone depletion--is now subject to further review...
...first such vote since the Supreme Court decriminalized most abortions in 1973, the House voted 288 to 139 to ban a very rare form of late-term abortion that anti-abortion legislators described as particularly brutal to fetuses. Despite the likelihood of a Senate filibuster and a presidential veto, abortion-rights advocates said they feared that the House bill, which would impose criminal penalties on doctors, could presage the passage of even more restrictive legislation...
...former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy, Lake--whose clients include powerful agribusiness interests--pleaded guilty to charges involving a scheme to benefit Espy's brother Henry. A failed run for Congress had left Henry Espy with a $75,000 bank debt. To help him pay it--while evading the ban on corporate contributions to federal election campaigns--Lake persuaded three associates at his lobbying firm to make personal contributions of $1,000 to Espy's campaign. Lake did the same. Then he reimbursed everyone, including himself, with funds from a fictitious billing to one of his clients, Sun-Diamond Growers. Lake...