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...PLAN Gore would strengthen the current Medicare program, putting aside $435 billion to keep it solvent--most of it in a "lockbox" outside the federal budget. And he would expand the program by adding a universal Rx drug benefit for all seniors. He also would allow people from ages 55 to 65 to buy into Medicare with the help of a tax credit...
NHTSA's attempts to improve safety have also faced congressional roadblocks. Tire-safety standards have not budged for 32 years, despite repeated calls for revision. But standing in the way of efforts to expand NHTSA's regulatory powers are such pro-auto legislators as John Dingell, the House Commerce Committee's senior Democrat, who is from Dearborn, Mich. (an auto center), and Michael Oxley, a Republican from Finley, Ohio (a tire center). Billy Tauzin, the committee's chairman, from Louisiana, tried several years ago to cut back on NHTSA's enforcement authority...
With the help of such legislators as Senator Patrick Leahy, who has proposed legislation to expand NHTSA's scope, NHTSA may soon be able to change the way it does business. But as often occurs with such underfunded agencies, nothing happens until the bodies start piling...
...capital to compete with rivals that are suddenly much larger. Even the giant Merrill Lynch could soon be forced into a deal - Merrill already has a $1 billion joint venture focused on newly affluent individual investors with Britain's HSBC, a huge financial holding company; if the two expand their partnership, the global reach of American banking could extend even further...
...plans to continue its presence at first-year registration next year and will also try to expand voter registration efforts to Harvard's graduate schools...