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...billion crime bill, which was to be voted on today, has been postponed to later this week. The latest unofficial head count: supporters appear to be about 10 votes shy of victory. The legislation would fund the hiring of 100,000 cops, build prisons and ban certain types of assault weapons. "It's a close vote ... you don't need a big shift [for it to pass or fail]," says TIME's Washington Correspondent Laurence I. Barrett. "I think it's going to pass, ... but I can't back that up with 218 names [a winning tally...
Following weeks of impasse, House and Senate conferees finally settled their differences and agreed on a $30 billion crime bill. The compromise measure maintains a controversial ban on 19 assault weapons but drops an equally controversial provision that would have allowed death-row inmates to challenge their sentence on the basis of race discrimination...
This, Chatfield said, contrasts sharply with today's politics, in which fundamentalists stand at the right of the political spectrum and seek to ban abortion and exclude gays...
...scraped through a House-Senate committee today, and faces a full congressional vote within the next two weeks. "There will be a certain amount of rhetoric from both sides," says Laurence I. Barrett, TIME Washington contributor. "But I don't think it will defeat the bill." The legislation would ban some assault weapons, punish three-time felons with life sentences and add many crimes to the growing list of death-penalty offenses. The price tag for carrying out the law's mandates: $32.4 billion. What's missing from the grab bag is the controversial Racial Justice Act, which would have...
...Something else for snuff fans to chew on: more than half of 91 National League baseball players who use some form of smokeless tobacco have precancerous lesions. The American Dental Association has called for a ban on chewing tobacco at major-league ball parks...