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Deep divisions continue within the majority Democratic caucuses. Louisiana Senator John Breaux, who succeeded Clinton as head of the Democratic Leadership Council, predicts that the President will have to rely increasingly on center-right groupings of conservative Democrats and moderate Republicans. NAFTA aside, however, those alliances have been more inclined to oppose the President than to back him. Examples: a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget that the Administration vehemently opposes has important Democratic sponsorship, and bipartisan support has formed behind a health-care reform bill that Clinton dislikes but that has been introduced in the Senate by -- guess...
...supporting when they oppose it? The answer seems clear: their own. If the NRA lined your pocket with much-needed campaign funds in a depressed economy before an election year, you too might echo John Breaux. Before it was clear that the filibuster would be broken, the senator from Louisiana said, "I'm going to do some polling back in Louisiana over the recess...
TOKYO: For Masaichi and Mieko Hattori, the 15 minutes with President Clinton were necessary to ensure that their son had not died in vain. Most Japanese were outraged and bewildered in 1992 after a homeowner in Louisiana shot Yoshihiro, a 16-year-old exchange student; the man who did it was acquitted of manslaughter. The Hattoris pinned a Coalition to Stop Gun Violence sticker on Clinton. Public sentiment in Japan strongly supports the couple...
...Cooper, a Tennessee Democrat, and Fred Grandy, an Iowa Republican. Cooper describes his bill as "Clinton Lite": less costly, less mandatory, less bureaucratic. Clintonites reply that it also would not cover all of the 37 million people now uninsured. Nonetheless, staff members for Cooper and Senator John Breaux, a Louisiana Democrat, have begun negotiations with aides to Dole and Republican Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island to see whether they can blend their efforts into a single, bipartisan, both-chambers bill...
This year's surge in requests for vaccinations came after a late August announcement by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) regarding the detection of the type A-Beijing strain of influenza in Louisiana...