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...David Boren...
...support the bill put forward by minority leader Richard Gephardt. But the President's real problem remains his fellow Democrats. That wasn't Bob Dole who was pounding the lectern during last week's debate, shouting, "We've got to stop this train right now!" It was David Boren, Democrat of Oklahoma...
...White House is more concerned about bringing along conservative Democrats like Georgia's Sam Nunn and David Boren of Oklahoma, who have made it clear that even a hint of employer mandates could be too much. "To have any chance," Boren insists, "we must knock out the triggered mandate." The fate of Mitchell's plan may lie in the hands of a dozen or so Senators in both parties, including Boren, Nebraska Democrat Bob Kerrey and Republicans John Chafee of Rhode Island and Missouri's John Danforth...
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...
Among the many risks in this strategy is that Mitchell still has nowhere near 51 votes. If the majority leader tries to muscle a partisan bill through, it would take just six more Democrats to join Boren's boycott to hand Clinton a defeat. In fact, many of the swing-vote Democrats the White House considers crucial to this strategy told Time last week that it would end in failure. Several White House officials privately concede that a deal coming out of the Finance Committee is essential, at least to keeping reform from stalling completely. And some White House aides...