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Jane believes strongly in government subsidies to asparagus producers; John is diametrically opposed to asparagus. Jane is worth approximately one hundred times as much as John. Both are politically active. Guess whose voice is heard on Capitol Hill...
Meanwhile, Magaziner was making enemies on Capitol Hill, where he was regarded as a political klutz who did more to damage the Clinton case than to help it. At one meeting with Republicans on legislative strategy, Magaziner dismissed such talk as "minutiae." The First Lady was dispatched to the Hill to soothe bruised egos and keep liberals on board. Working closely with West Virginia Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller, Mrs. Clinton would often consult with a dozen lawmakers in person and via telephone. She probed for weak spots in support and likely criticism, but gave nothing away. Leaders of both parties...
...plan would cost the government $700 billion over the first five years and be funded in part by $105 billion in new taxes on large corporations as well as additional taxes on tobacco and alcohol. The White House will also seek $238 billion in Medicare and Medicaid savings. On Capitol Hill, the First Lady said the Administration was open to discuss changes in the plan, but not from "a standpat, negative, naysaying opposition...
Until last Thursday. On that day, Mrs. Clinton visited Capitol Hill to persuade key Congressmen that she welcomed their suggestions. But Fortney Stark, the irascible California Democrat who chairs the House health subcommittee, complained that he could not seriously study the plan under Mrs. Clinton's ground rules: that legislators could see it only in guarded "reading rooms" in the Capitol, where they would be forbidden to make copies or take notes. By early evening, majority leader Dick Gephardt ordered that they be given copies of the plan. And by 6 p.m., copies of those copies began making their...
That campaign will be dramatically joined next Wednesday night when Clinton delivers his televised address on the issue. An advocacy group has prepared a billboard near the Capitol that will light up that night and begin ticking off the number of Americans who have lost their health insurance: 50 every minute, or almost one a second. That should serve as a reminder of what Mrs. Clinton often calls "the cost of doing nothing" on this issue...