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Efforts are under way to change that. Last week Texas Governor George W. Bush signed a law to exempt physicians from such antitrust regulations. Republican Congressman Tom Campbell of California and Democrat John Conyers of Michigan have introduced a bill that would do the same nationwide. The bill, vigorously endorsed by the A.M.A., has bipartisan congressional support, but last week officials from the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission testified that it could pump up premiums...
...torchlight ritual appeared in a local paper. As word spread, Christian groups and politicians denounced the Wiccans as both satanic and inappropriate in the U.S. Army. Eleven religious organizations called on Christians not to enlist or re-enlist until the Army stops supporting witchcraft. "What's next?" asked Republican Congressman Bob Barr in a letter to Fort Hood's commander. "Will armored divisions be forced to travel with sacrificial animals for satanic rituals?" G.O.P. Senator Strom Thurmond vowed to introduce legislation to stop the armed forces from condoning witchcraft. The Army shrugs at such complaints, saying it has no plans...
...Former Congressman Vin Weber, co-founder of Empower America, says "the old formulation is breaking down in this election, and Bush is testing a new one." The new formulation calls for soothing soccer moms by seeming to retreat from the official platform on abortion, while using religious testimony to quiet the Evangelicals. Bobbie Gobel, who as chair of Iowa's Christian Coalition controls the most sought-after endorsement in the state, concedes that Bush hasn't publicly toed the line on abortion but says she believes that as a "man of God" he will. To explain why she thinks this...
...chill has settled over Hollywood on the subject of violence. Washington's attacks hit a fever pitch last week, as Republican Congressman Henry Hyde blasted "toxically poisoning" entertainment and tried but failed to get an amendment passed making it a crime to expose children to violent movies. Hollywood lobbyists continue to attack such efforts as a violation of the industry's First Amendment rights. Nevertheless, the Columbine High School shootings and the national kids-and-violence conversation it set off have left Hollywood in an unusually reflective mood...
...ambitious plan. It would ban sales of obscenely violent and explicitly sexual material to minors. Hyde also wants Congress to urge stores to make song lyrics available to parents before purchase. And he wants a study on the effects of music and video games on youth violence--though the Congressman seems to believe he knows what the findings would be. "There is a spiritual vacuum in these young people," he said last week, "that is filled with the culture of death and violence...