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This was no small achievement. Since Boren has refused to vote for any plan that doesn't have bipartisan support, Moynihan cannot hope to get a bill out of his committee without appealing to the G.O.P. "If we don't have Republicans walking down the aisle with us," says Breaux, a member of the group, "some Democrats won't even be in the church...
What's true in the Finance Committee may also prove true in the full Senate. Among Democrats, the rival idea to the bipartisan approach is to take a plan resembling Clinton's to a vote on the Senate floor. The critical question for supporters of this strategy is whether enough Democrats, at least 51 of the 56 in the Senate, would stick with the White House to pass a strictly partisan bill. Under this all-or-nothing approach, Senate majority leader George Mitchell would ignore the Finance Committee and take the bill that was shepherded through the liberal Labor Committee...
...that a deal coming out of the Finance Committee is essential, at least to keeping reform from stalling completely. And some White House aides even believe that a compromise bill from the Finance Committee is the only vehicle for success in the full Senate. "This has to be a bipartisan deal," says an aide to the President. "It can't be Democrat-only. It just...
...bipartisan group of Senators drafted a health-care compromise plan that could jump-start the Clinton reform effort. Rhode Island Republican John Chafee and other Senators stopped short of key Clinton goals -- including the disputed employer mandate that would require businesses to foot most of the bill. But the group proposed insurance reforms and market strategies to insure most Americans. And what if the new proposal doesn't work? Its sponsors say that if 95 percent of Americans don't have health insurance by 2002, a special commission will decide how to boost the number, followed by a congressional vote...
...Clinton is expected to lay out this week when he finally unveils his proposal for overhauling the welfare system. No promise in his race for the presidency proved so popular as the pledge to "end welfare as we know it." No issue in his first term has inspired such bipartisan, near universal agreement on the need to do something dramatic. And for all the attention paid in the past year to his health-care plan, no policy has such potential to reinvent whole aspects of American public and private life. Behind all the bureaucratic tinkering is a moral campaign against...