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Senate Democrats, in a growing challenge to President Clinton and European allies, lined up behind Republican leader Bob Dole as the Senate voted 69-29 to end the U.S. arms embargo on Bosnia. The bipartisan clamor grew despitea NATO agreementjust hours earlier to seek pre-emptive air strikes on rebel Serbs in the region. "There's only one thing that's going to protect the Bosnian people againstthe Serb expansion," said Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), who waved published reports of continued Serb aggression. "And that is if they're allowed to defend themselves." More significant, Senate Republicans have secured...
...actually govern? It is likely both parties in Congress would be plenty angry with President Powell for having broken up their games. Would there be a proliferation of parties, turning American democracy into a version of Italy's fractured, shifting coalition style? Friends counter that Powell could form a bipartisan government of national reconciliation. But he has known many Third World coup leaders who say they have taken power to achieve national reconciliation...
...Civil Rights Commission saysenforcement of civil rights lawsis so bureaucratic and slow that some people have to wait a decade for the federal government to resolve their complaints. The explanation, in a report released today by the bipartisan commission, boils down to budget cuts for the six major federal enforcement agencies even as the workload is expanding due to the passage of new anti-discrimination laws, mainly theAmericans with Disabilities Act. The four Republican appointees to the panel said they would not have released the report, which Democrats approved when three GOP members were absent...
...most part, however, the LSC has enjoyed bipartisan support since it was created by Congress with President Nixon's backing, in 1974. A private, nonprofit corporation, it administers grants to 323 programs with 12,000 neighborhood law offices in every county in the U.S. In addition, more than 130,000 lawyers are involved in pro bono activities directed by the LSC. But even with the $415 million that Congress currently appropriates -- which is augmented by $240 million from,state and other sources -- a recent American Bar Association survey found that less than one-fifth of the civil legal needs...
While the Clinton Administration, the House and the Senate have proposed toslash farm subsidiesby as much as $9 billion over the next five years, a bipartisan House coalition is presenting an even more radical idea: eliminate the agricultural payments entirely. Rep. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is co-sponsor of a bill that he says will "wean American agriculture from subsidies and move it into the free market." The bill would save $27.5 billion in federal spending during the five-year phase-out period. Although some have charged that an elimination of subsidies could lead to higher prices for consumers...