Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second day in a row, moderates lobbed eleventh-hour health-care bills onto the floor of Congress, undermining the proposal that has the support of President Clinton. Even as the President sent members of his Cabinet to Capitol Hill to shore up support for Senate majority leader George Mitchell's bill, centrist Senators announced plans to introduce a stripped-down, bipartisan bill that would not increase taxes or require that employers pay for workers' insurance. Just yesterday a group of House members introduced an even milder bill that would leave 26 million people uninsured. TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson says...
...other side of Capitol Hill, FBI and U.S. park-police investigators affirmed before the Senate Banking Committee that the death of deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster was a suicide unrelated to Whitewater...
...Time Gospel Hour. (No one will give any figures on sales of either video.) Illinois Congressman Philip Crane, who unsuccessfully sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1980, wrote a complimentary covering letter for + copies of the longer Chronicles tape, distributed by the California group to his G.O.P. colleagues on Capitol Hill...
...sometimes local economics frustrate change. The park service's attempts to remove a luncheonette and gift shop in New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns have ignited protests from the state's congressional delegation, though the contract has expired. Babbitt ventured up to Capitol Hill to tell Senator Pete Domenici his decision was final, only to watch Representative Joseph Skeen slip through an amendment in an appropriations bill, depriving the park service of the money to tear down the structure. Conservationists call such meddling "park barrel," alluding to the politicians' talent for stuffing budgets with pork for voters back home...
...Ways and Means bill would also require managed-care systems to hire all kinds of nonphysicians as well, including chiropractors, podiatrists, optometrists, nurse practitioners and psychologists. Managed-care executives call this the "every-living-provider" rule and, not surprisingly, it came after dozens of professional groups descended on Capitol Hill to push hard for it. For instance, the chiropractors, aware that physicians are not always eager to send them patients in either the managed-care or fee-for-service systems, spent $2.8 million lobbying to get themselves included in the bill...