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Meanwhile, the issue is forcing its way onto the national agenda. On March 5 the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bipartisan bill establishing a two-year commission to study the economic impact of gambling, the influence of gaming's political contributions, state-lottery advertising, gambling-related crime and Internet betting. "The moral, social, economic and political ramifications of gambling are far too great to go unaddressed," says Republican Representative Marge Roukema from New Jersey, a state that has the second biggest gaming industry after Nevada. "We must carefully evaluate what has become an uncontrollable epidemic that has destroyed peoples...
PALISADES, N.Y: Governors and business leaders who gathered for a summit on raising educational standards agreed Tuesday that states, not the federal government, should set the marks for student performance. At the first such summit in 1989, national standards were the goal. Now, amid a bipartisan push in Washington to allow states to experiment in education and welfare programs, the governors have the ear of a private sector that is increasingly worried about mediocre graduates. "The American people have spoken," IBM Chairman Louis Gerstner told the group. "They do not want national standards." Gerstner and Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson hosted...
...what comes naturally: he talked shop. From his lap he plucked a neatly folded piece of paper and ticked off a list of bills. Farm bill. "Have to do that." Line-item veto. "That's something they [the Democrats] want." Small-business regulatory reform. "That's bipartisan. That will pass, probably 90 to 6." And on and on down the list: health-care insurance, term limits, campaign-finance reform and a balanced budget. Pure Dole, so comfortable with legislative jargon, so uncomfortable with campaign rhetoric: "When we leave here for the convention, if we've got a pretty good list...
Earlier this month a bipartisan group of Senators proposed creating an independent commission to handle corporate-welfare reform. This is Washington's version of "Please continue to hold. A service representative will be with you shortly." But it was the best they could do, since neither Congress nor the White House seems capable of tackling the issue...
...Internet, the cost of illiberal, left-wing campaigns against pornography and other speech deemed hateful should be clear. Censorship is now regarded as an appropriate response to social problems by centrist and left-of-center politicians, as well as upholders of "family values" on the right. Overwhelming bipartisan support for the indecency ban demonstrates how leftist proposals to regulate speech further a right-wing social agenda...