Word: kassebaum
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...their particular costs are predictably high. On the other hand, we reject the Big Government solution to these problems, as symbolized (somewhat unfairly) by President Clinton's health-care plan of 1993. Thus the temptation of this year's leading health-care proposal, jointly sponsored by Republican Senator Nancy Kassebaum and Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy. The 46 co-sponsors cover the ideological spectrum. The nub of the Kassebaum-Kennedy approach is to limit insurance companies' freedom to refuse or drop customers they consider to be bad risks. In other words, it attempts to achieve the goals of socialism through...
...Increasingly, holds are used to stall legislation or nominations that otherwise would easily pass. And in the Senate, delay can be fatal. The insurance bill, which seeks to reform allegedly unfair industry practices, boasted an almost evenly bipartisan list of 44 co-sponsors. But when chief sponsors Republican Nancy Kassebaum and Democrat Ted Kennedy started making inquiries last September about scheduling a floor vote, majority leader Bob Dole informed them that someone had placed a hold on the bill...
...next five months, Kennedy and Kassebaum tracked down a number of conservative suspects, among them Oklahoma's Don Nickles, Arizona's John Kyl, North Carolina's Jesse Helms and Lauch Faircloth, and majority whip Trent Lott. But each potential culprit denied he was the one standing in the way of the bill--at that moment, at least. The hold, it seems, was rolling from requester to anonymous requester. Behind it all, Kennedy and Kassebaum believed, was the Health Insurance Association of America, which has argued that the bill will be far more expensive than advertised. The association also fears that...
...Senate's vanishing political middle shrank further when influential Kansas moderate Nancy Landon Kassebaum announced she would retire next year to pursue "the challenge of being a grandmother." She becomes the 10th Senator, and the second Republican, to leave office in 1996. In the House, Indiana Democrat Andrew Jacobs announced he would step down, the 18th Representative and 15th Democrat...
...weeks ago, the Republicans achieved their goal. Direct student lending has been capped at only 10 percent of total loan volume. If there was any justice in this country, Goodling, Kassebaum and their ilk would be publicly whipped on the Capitol steps. But that won't happen. We will just pay higher loan fees and watch bankers laugh as they...