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...current horror. It long ago stacked the deck against the players by exempting baseball from the antitrust laws, protection no other U.S. business enjoys. If the G.O.P. leadership were serious about getting the government out of things, it would join the call of Senators Orrin Hatch and Pat Moynihan to partly repeal the exemption. Fat chance. Beyond ``the stated reason that this should be resolved by the parties themselves,'' says Senator Bob Graham, there's also the fact ``that the owners have a significant amount of political clout, and they don't want Congress mucking around in this...
Three senior U.S. Senators today launched an attempt to end the six-month-old baseball strike with legislation that would partially repeal the sport's 73-year-old antitrust exemption. Players union head Donald Fehr lauded the bill, introduced by Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) and Bob Graham (D-Fla.). They want to let players mount court challenges -- as is done in other industries -- when owners unite to set labor restrictions. Congressional leaders, including House Speaker Newt Gingrich, are opposed to enacting legislation to solve the strike. Gingrich and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole...
...point, most people would agree with him. There's good reason to ask whether the welfare system has contributed to the burgeoning problem of children without fathers. "The Republicans are saying that we have a helluva problem, and we do," says New York Senator Daniel Moynihan, a Democrat. And at a time when the yearly number of immigrants, both legal and illegal, tops 1 million, it's not xenophobic to wonder how large an influx the nation can reasonably accommodate. Whatever the slender merits of California's Proposition 187, desperate measures are not surprising from a state that each year...
...Daniel Moynihan...
...Daniel Moynihan $4,671,532 (D-NY) 34 cents...