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...bleakest moment for Bill Clinton's No. 1 domestic goal came abruptly last Tuesday. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan suddenly adjourned his Finance Committee in frustration after just one hour of talking about health-care reform. Though two committees and a subcommittee in the House and Senate have already passed reform bills resembling President Clinton's proposal, even the supporters of those plans concede that none have the votes to become law. Moynihan's committee is key, in part because its composition -- 11 Democrats, half of whom are moderate to conservate, and nine Republicans -- closely mirrors the Senate as a whole...
...Wednesday, Moynihan sprang another surprise. Having failed to win more than half a dozen votes for his own version of the Clinton plan, Moynihan stunned members by announcing that the committee would begin voting on elements of a new plan by early this week. The committee's senior Republican, Bob Packwood, nearly jumped out of his seat with surprise. Vote on what? he asked. Moynihan turned to John Chafee, the Rhode Island Republican who had been working separately on a proposal with some Democratic members. "What do you guys have?" Moynihan asked...
...styled "rump" group of moderate Democrats and Republicans had little more than a five-paragraph outline of a proposal. By week's end the group had lost one supporter but had forged ahead, led by Chafee and Louisiana Democrat John Breaux, and presented a 30-page draft plan to Moynihan. A 100- page draft was promised for this week...
This was no small achievement. Since Boren has refused to vote for any plan that doesn't have bipartisan support, Moynihan cannot hope to get a bill out of his committee without appealing to the G.O.P. "If we don't have Republicans walking down the aisle with us," says Breaux, a member of the group, "some Democrats won't even be in the church...
...week, Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered a fiery call to arms to supporters of the Administration's plan, urging them to stand firm. "No other reform in our health-care system will work if we do not achieve guaranteed universal coverage," she declared. But she noted approvingly to Moynihan that "good things are happening in the Senate Finance Committee." On the Hill, neither Moynihan nor Mitchell endorsed the plan...