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...Senate, they could be counted on to impose unity for the important floor votes that moved through the Reagan program -- with the crucial cooperation of conservative Southern Democrats. Robert Dole, then chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, regularly produced unanimous Republican stands in that body, something Pat Moynihan, its current chairman, can only wish for with his less manageable Democrats...
...followed the welfare-reform debate, Anita Hill must be having post- traumatic flashbacks. Here we have a collection of important white males, including Bill Clinton, Pat Moynihan and Bill Bennett, scowling down on one small, scared, female figure -- embodied, in this case, in the Welfare Recipient. The women in the 5 million families on welfare are no more, and no less, representative of American womanhood than Anita Hill was. But the assault on welfare, like the Senate committee's interrogation of Professor Hill, is an implicit attack on the dignity and personhood of every woman, black or white, poor...
...hope of delaying such a showdown that Senate Finance Committee chairman Daniel Patrick Moynihan had cut a deal with his colleague John Danforth in late May. In return for the Missourian's attempt at compromise, the pro-choice New Yorker signed on to the result: two pro-life amendments to the committee's health-care bill. Like many other senior Democrats, Moynihan hoped to put the issue off for another...
...vote of 12 to 8, it rejected the idea of requiring employees to pay for the coverage, even in 2002 if 95% of the population is not covered by then. Committee members were unwilling to accept the so-called hard trigger favored by committee chairman Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Instead, they substituted a masterpiece of fuzziness: if 95% of the people do not have health-insurance coverage by 2002, a national health commission will make recommendations on what to do -- but Congress will not have to follow or even consider them...
...Moynihan will take up the group's proposals this week in an attempt to massage them into passable form. Senate Democratic leaders have set the end of July as the deadline for getting a bill out of his committee and onto the floor. Between now and then, Clinton will have to decide whether to support a pale version of his plan or follow the advice of those aides who believe a partisan floor fight could be won. The decision will be one of the most important and risky of his presidency...