Word: bipartisanism
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...that it was difficult to imagine last week that his words might be hollow. Seated at the ornate, curved rostrum of the House Ways and Means Committee's hearing chamber, the chairman of 13 years was blunt about his plans for passing a health bill. "If we can be bipartisan and achieve universal coverage," he growled, "great." Pause. "If we can't, I will do whatever I need to do to to get at least 20 votes" -- a majority...
...excess of $3,000 a year, which would make such insurance more affordable. The Heritage plan has attracted few sponsors in Congress, but Senator John Chafee, the Rhode Island Republican, calls for an individual mandate in his health-reform plan, which has drawn support as a vehicle for bipartisan compromise...
...however, as Congress seeks new ways to finance health coverage for the uninsured, the tax subsidy is losing its untouchable status, especially among members of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, who are working to draft a bipartisan alternative to the Clinton health plan. Two key Democrats, David Boren of Oklahoma and Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, last week endorsed a health- reform bill sponsored by Republican Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island that would limit the tax subsidy and use the saving to help the working poor buy health insurance...
...lopsided Senate vote in Kelso's favor would have been the expected end of it. Instead, a bipartisan group of women forced a daylong debate. Those who tried to defend the admiral were reduced to praise for a solid 38-year career -- minus Tailhook and logic. Republican Senator Ted Stevens of Arkansas asked his female colleagues to "remember that ((Kelso is)) a father of two young women who are very sensitive of their father's role in this matter" -- whatever that meant. John Warner of Virginia worried about the hardship Kelso's wife would bear if he were...
Loopholes, though, are just the colorful, exotic side of the story. One of the great bipartisan axioms of our times is that if you irritate the rich and the corporations -- for example, by insisting that they cough up some tax revenue -- they'll get all huffy and will refuse to create any jobs for the ) rest of us. So we solemnly nod our heads when the politicians assure us that cutting the taxes of the wealthy constitutes "tax reform," while increasing them would be a suicidal form of "class warfare...