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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...campaign season, Lott's pugnacious side would rather play up partisan differences than get a bill passed. Already fading are prospects for a modest bill to make medical insurance portable from job to job. For now Lott is showing little inclination to modify a conservative-backed amendment to establish so-called medical savings accounts, an addition Democrats call a "poison pill." With cooperation like that, the cease-fire won't last long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SENATE'S TOUGH LOTT | 6/24/1996 | See Source »

...McAllister, "including the most recent legislation vetoed by the President. Clinton is backing an idea that he knows is popular to show he cares about welfare reform." Noting that his Administration intends to "make responsibility a way of life, not an option," Clinton also announced a plan to establish a national database of deadbeat parents that companies can check to determine if job applicants owe child support. -->