Word: bans
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...consumer group has asked the FDA to ban prescription sales of a drug for nighttime leg cramps; the group says that quinine sulfate, while effective against malaria, is dangerous when used to treat cramps. An fda ban on over- the-counter brands will take effect in February...
...natural gas, Huffington has spent $10 million of his own money on the campaign and expects to spend that much again by Election Day, most of it on TV commercials. To combat those, Feinstein's ads concentrate strongly on her anticrime measures -- she was author of the assault-weapons ban that was part of the crime bill -- her support for the death penalty, the balanced budget amendment and limits on illegal immigrants...
...programs such as police hiring and training, prison construction and crime prevention, the bill contained provisions for an expansion of the death penalty to cover dozens of federal crimes, a Racial Justice Act that would allow defendants to use racial statistics to challenge death sentences as discriminatory, and a ban on the sale or transfer of handguns to juveniles without parental consent. On May 5 the House separately approved a ban on the sale of 19 assault weapons by a vote of 216 to 214. The entire package then went to a conference committee to be reconciled with the Senate...
...Senate came to a boil with the passage of President Clinton's crime bill by a vote of 61 to 38. The $30 billion measure provided funding for 100,000 more cops -- a centerpiece of Clinton's campaign. Most Republicans who voted against the bill opposed the ban on assault weapons and demanded a $5 billion cut in prevention programs, which they dismissed as pork. Senate majority leader George Mitchell prevailed by warning his colleagues that they risked going home in an election year without dealing with voters' No. 1 concern...
LOBBYING AND GIFTS: For more a year, legislators have been struggling with the delicate issue of how much they should disclose about their contacts with lobbyists as well as the gifts and favors proffered by them. Based on votes taken in May 1993, the Senate is prepared to ban all gifts except those from friends and relatives. The House, however, has so far shown a willingness to permit certain gifts and favors from lobbyists, such as subsidized conferences and trips on behalf of charitable causes. Under discussion is a compromise that would bar acceptance of any "gifts of value...