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...seeks new ways to finance health coverage for the uninsured, the tax subsidy is losing its untouchable status, especially among members of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, who are working to draft a bipartisan alternative to the Clinton health plan. Two key Democrats, David Boren of Oklahoma and Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, last week endorsed a health- reform bill sponsored by Republican Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island that would limit the tax subsidy and use the saving to help the working poor buy health insurance...
...take a fresh look at a hardy perennial when it debates a balanced-budget amendment later this month. While a comparable measure was defeated in 1986, this one has gained public support around the country and could stand a better chance. Meanwhile, deficit hawks led by Democratic Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska plan to propose more than $100 billion in spending cuts next month. A similar package failed in the House last year by only six votes...
...evasion of the draft and his subsequent evasion of the truth on the issue during his presidential campaign. But speaking in the company of an audience that included Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, a veteran who has for some time demanded an end to the embargo, and Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his service in Vietnam, the President was able to overcome his limited political strength in favor of a fresh and long-needed shift in national priorities...
...directors and co-stars. She turned down meaty roles in several popular films (including Broadcast News) and walked off another (A League of Their Own). Her star waned with brash parts in The Sheltering Sky and Everybody Wins. She made amber waves in Nebraska while trysting with Governor Bob Kerrey, before and after her two- year marriage to actor Timothy Hutton...
Complicating the equation is another promise that the President made in order to pass his budget plan: establishing a bipartisan commission on entitlement reform, led by Nebraska Democratic Senator Bob Kerrey and G.O.P. Senator John Danforth of Missouri. The tentative consensus within the White House leans toward dynamic inaction, waiting for the commission's report in May to test the political waters on paring entitlements. But that would still leave unresolved a ticklish problem: Where would the savings from entitlement reform go? Congress is awash with it's-the-deficit-stupid fervor, while the Administration covets new money...