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For the second day in a row, moderates lobbed eleventh-hour health-care bills onto the floor of Congress, undermining the proposal that has the support of President Clinton. Even as the President sent members of his Cabinet to Capitol Hill to shore up support for Senate majority leader George...
The debate on Senate Democrats' health care proposal began in earnest with harsh partisan sniping on both sides. Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas) invoked the threat of a filibuster, calling the bill floated by Sen. George Mitchell (D-Maine) "anathema to everything I believe is right for America." This prompted...
Staff Writer: Emily Mitchell
Attempting to hammer out a passable bill, both houses of Congress grappled with drafts of health-care reform proposals. At week's end House Democratic leaders announced a bill that would provide universal coverage and require employers to pay most of their workers' insurance costs, with subsidies provided for small...
At his news conference Wednesday night, the President confused Congress by endorsing two opposing health reform bills -- a Clinton-style House plan from Richard Gephardt, and a Senate plan from Majority leader George Mitchell that effectively drops employer mandates. Since the final package will be a compromise, nervous House members...