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Earlier in the week, when he went public with criticism of the mainstream proposal, Clinton appeared to have given up hope of any sizable achievement. "It will be better not to do anything at all," he said in a speech, "than to adopt a program that would actually increase costs...
The President endorsed Mitchell's new posture. Asked by reporters, he declined three times to repeat his threat to veto any bill that does not provide universal coverage. White House aides think they can offset the image of Clinton the flip-flopper by playing up the image of Clinton the...
As the formal debate on health-care reform dragged on, the Senate finally did something and voted on a number of minor amendments to majority leader George Mitchell's bill. Meanwhile, a fluid "mainstream" coalition of moderate Democrats and Republicans endured long negotiations to craft an alternative proposal that, while...
Like the House before it, the Senate has put health-care reform on hold until early September -- a move that will probably shoehorn any effort at legislation this year into the nine-week slot between Labor and Election days. After wearing themselves out on the crime-bill fight, Senators pressured...
After months of wending its way through congressional committees, health-care reform finally moved to the center stage of the Senate floor, with no one certain of the outcome. As formal debate began on his compromise bill, Senate majority leader George Mitchell told his colleagues, "We will undertake no more...