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...which passed by a 421-2 margin and is headed for a similar reception in the Senate today, ensures portability of coverage from job to job, prohibits denial of insurance because of existing medical conditions and increases the health care deduction for the self-employed. Taken with a 90-cent minimum wage increase, passed by week's end, the health care and welfare reforms ensure that this Congress will leave its mark. "We've seen Congress go from gridlock to Olympic gold," Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott told a group of cheering Republicans. Maybe. "Congress is like the sprint cyclists...
...Schiffer's Australian agency, dismisses it as a "pie-in-the-sky rumor." So no interview--but Melbourne businessman Jean Mazloun says he struck a $280,000 deal with Schiffer's New York management for her to appear at the Australian designer-collections parade. "And it was worth every cent," says Mazloun. Schiffer's New York agent, like his Aussie counterpart, swears the model's fee was nowhere near the quoted figure. "I wish," says Aline Souliers. "My cut would be fantastic...
...Janet makes many of her own clothes. Voinovich is pro-life, deeply pro-business and anti-casino gambling. He was the first Governor to endorse Dole. But he is not afraid of him: two weeks ago, he stunned Dole insiders by criticizing Dole's proposed repeal of the 4.3 [cent] gas-tax increase of 1993, saying the rollback distracted from the real issue of the deficit. Dole took the punch in stride, noting wryly to an aide that Voinovich "must have raised taxes." Indeed he did: on booze and soda pop, to eliminate a deficit. Now Ohio...
...roughly a billion dollars a penny in annual revenue, a 50 cent gas tax would slice a quarter off our budget deficit by 2000, while still leaving prices 20% below their 1981 high and less than half what motorists abroad pay. The chief (and valid) objection to higher gas taxes is that they fall most heavily on those with less income. But relief for those at the bottom--say, by cuts in payroll taxes--could be enacted as well. The truth is that every tank of gas today contains fresh proof of the "consume now" ethic that pervades our culture...
...like it or not, there's a paradox in our pique: America's love affair with cheap energy is precisely the reason that gas taxes should be higher. Bob Dole and Bill Clinton won't say so, of course. They're busy sparring over a repeal of the 4.3 cent-per-gal. gas tax the President included in his 1993 deficit-reduction plan. But pandering isn't inevitable: four years ago, Ross Perot and Paul Tsongas were calling for a new 50 cent-per-gal. tax to be phased in over a number of years. The Big Three automakers...