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Whatever the outcome, the dustup is accomplishing one thing: getting the public interested. Clinton had previously signed up all five ex-Presidents and squadrons of other bipartisan cognoscenti to back the agreement, which would create a free-trade zone encompassing Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. Clinton can even count on such Republican NAFTA supporters as Henry Kissinger and James Baker, as well as multimedia star Rush Limbaugh. The President showed off some of NAFTA's big-name boosters at what was supposed to be a White House media event last Wednesday; so far as the public noticed, he might just...
...House Democrats, heavily dependent on labor support for election, are against NAFTA. Clinton has the unenviable, but vital challenge of proving that he is enough of a New Democrat to break free of union domination, and that he can bring enough Democrats along with him and forge a strong bipartisan coalition...
...Clinton bill's list of sponsors -- fewer than 50 Democrats in the House and 31 Senators, including a lone Republican, Jim Jeffords of Vermont -- compares unfavorably with the 89 House Democrats sponsoring a bill to institute a single-payer system for the entire country, or the 50-odd bipartisan sponsors of the most popular competing House bill...
There are some signs, however, that bipartisan moderates may come together around some variation of a House bill introduced by Jim Cooper, a Tennessee Democrat, and Fred Grandy, an Iowa Republican. Cooper describes his bill as "Clinton Lite": less costly, less mandatory, less bureaucratic. Clintonites reply that it also would not cover all of the 37 million people now uninsured. Nonetheless, staff members for Cooper and Senator John Breaux, a Louisiana Democrat, have begun negotiations with aides to Dole and Republican Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island to see whether they can blend their efforts into a single, bipartisan, both...
...come hints that besides the sexual-misconduct charges, Packwood may be guilty of criminal violations. In mid-October, he willingly surrendered some 5,000 pages of entries up through 1989. He also let the committee's counsel look at additional entries. After the counsel reported back to the bipartisan committee that those entries contained information pointing to possible misconduct unrelated to the current inquiry, the committee asked to see the remaining 3,200 pages. Packwood balked, charging an infringement of his right to privacy. The committee responded with a subpoena. Last week in a five-page statement, ethics committee chairman...