Word: bill
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House Minority Leader Steven D. Pierce (R.-Hampden) introduced the amendment to drop the mandate, saying small business opposed the requirement despite a provision in the bill exempting firms with six employees or less...
...House's Democratic majority responded, defeating the amendment 86-66. Immediately afterward, the House tentatively endorsed the whole bill 99-53. Another vote will be needed in the House, which meets in formal session today, before the measure can move to the Senate...
Passage in the House, which scuttled Dukakis' health care bill in the 1987 session, is the key hurdle for the measure. Late in the 1987 session the Senate passed a bill similar to the one now before the House...
Earlier in the day, Republican State Committee Chairman Ray Shamie and Dukakis exchanged broadsides over the swift schedule the Democratic leadership had plotted for the bill's consideration...
...House Speaker George Keverian (D.-Everett) quelled calls for postponement when he took the podium for a rare floor speech and announced, "I want this bill to pass. I want this week to be one we remember as long as we live--one in which we faced the challenge...