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...many of the regulations in the Mitchell plan, and aims to lower the federal deficit. But Republicans, led by minority leader Bob Dole, were poised to halt the debate while the Congressional Budget Office tots up the cost of the various revisions. In the House, majority leader Richard Gephardt said debate on health-care reform would not begin until after Labor...
...this bodes well for the President's goal of universal health care. The G.O.P. is still a mostly unified chorus of noes on any of the Democratic plans. In the House, for instance, not a single Republican is prepared to support the bill put forward by minority leader Richard Gephardt. But the President's real problem remains his fellow Democrats. That wasn't Bob Dole who was pounding the lectern during last week's debate, shouting, "We've got to stop this train right now!" It was David Boren, Democrat of Oklahoma...
...even the First Lady seems entirely willing to get with the program. In a press conference last week, she was lukewarm toward the Mitchell plan that her husband had endorsed, pointedly preferring the Gephardt proposal. At a private meeting with House Democrats earlier this week on trade issues, Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen was asked how much influence he had with the Clintons on health-care strategy. Bentsen held his thumb and forefinger about an eighth of an inch apart, shrugged and steered the conversation back to free-trade legislation. Says a House Democrat: "There is a sense of complete chaos...
...House of Representatives' health care debate, which was expected to wrap up by Friday, is now on hold till next month so the members can try to salvage the crime bill. Majority Leader Richard Gephardt said the health care debate will begin by Sept. 8 at the latest, when they return from a held-over summer recess. The scheduling may leave Democrats in the soup: the longer the bill is delayed, the harder it will be to enact reforms considered essential to Democratic prospects in November's congressional elections...
Liberals in both houses supported the Gephardt idea in the hope that it would be useful as leverage against a more conservative Senate bill when both went to the House-Senate conference committee to be reconciled. But Clinton's embrace of the Senate plan instantly made it harder to attract support for the Gephardt proposal, which is in competition with a minimalist plan sponsored by the G.O.P. leadership and two bipartisan alternatives, none of which feature employer mandates. Why should House members stick their neck out, they ask, by voting in favor of high employer mandates if the final House...