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...last, all the details are on paper. To be exact, on 1,342 pages of paper that President Clinton hand-carried to Capitol Hill. Congressman Pete Stark, a California Democrat, said the next day that he had "stayed up to 4 a.m. but couldn't finish getting through" the proposed Health Security Act he had agreed to co-sponsor. Clinton himself rather plaintively told a Baltimore audience that "my brain aches" from studying the details of his own plan...
Trying to reverse this trend, Clinton struck notes ranging from passionate to pleading. Presenting the bill at a ceremony in Statuary Hall at the Capitol, Clinton began waving his arms and banging the lectern, first with a forefinger and then with a fist, as he slid into an ad-lib riff on the necessity for reform: the U.S., he cried, is "choking on a health-care system that -- is -- not -- working." The day after, in a speech to medical students and professors at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Clinton sounded oddly supplicating: "Please help us," he implored...
Hillary Clinton may have suspected a ruse when aides hurried her out of the White House up to a conference on Capitol Hill last Tuesday afternoon--only to find the room completely empty. Arriving back home minutes later, she received further evidence that something was afoot when her husband, dressed as James Madison, urged her into a costume suitable for Dolley. It was, after all, Mrs. Clinton's birthday...
...revive the District of Columbia's bid for statehood -- an issue that the body has assiduously avoided. New states mean new political math. The island, for example, would get two Senators and six Representatives, taking away seats from other parts of the country and expanding the Hispanic bloc on Capitol Hill...
Five weeks after he described his health-care reforms in a nationally televised address to Congress, President Clinton delivered the ambitious, historic, universal proposal to Capitol Hill -- all 1,342 pages of it. The President immediately declared himself open to compromise on almost any aspect of his package, except one: When legislation is passed, he declared, "we must have achieved comprehensive health-care security for all Americans." The Administration has pushed back the date of the plan's implementation to January 1998, and it has raised to 40% its estimate of the proportion of insured Americans who would have...