Word: plan
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...have just read is not a political ad--at least not yet. But by the end of the summer, Chandler may well have film crews in her living room. She and the nearly 40 million other Medicare recipients whose drug bills are not covered by the government's health plan for the elderly will be at the center of a high-profile joust between the President and Republicans. Both sides plan to introduce some kind of prescription-drug benefit into the Medicare system while retrofitting the 34-year-old program to keep it from collapse. Even before Clinton could formally...
...mostly silent about the system that funds it. He proposes lifting the $1,000 limit on individual contributions and requiring full disclosure of contributors. But, says McCain, "that's basically the system we have today. The restrictions we have now are a facade." The Senator's current plan, in his McCain-Feingold bill, would ban the unlimited contributions known as "soft money" that corporations, lobbyists and unions can give to national parties, and it would restrict outside, allegedly "independent" groups from running ads to help specific candidates...
...McCain's reform plan to resonate with grass-roots Republicans, he must pitch it in explicitly conservative terms. "You're never going to get a simpler, flatter tax code unless you reform the way we finance our campaigns," McCain says. "And you're never going to get rid of pork-barrel spending and make government smaller until you remove the special interests that dominate our political process." Sources close to McCain say he and his co-sponsor, Democrat Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, will threaten to bring Senate business to a halt this month unless G.O.P. leaders bring up the bill...
...Miccosukees have proved to be some of the quickest draws on the peninsula. This week President Clinton is scheduled to submit to Congress an $8 billion, 20-year plan to restore the Everglades, the most massive environmental project ever undertaken in the U.S. Native Americans are usually cast as p.r. decor during campaigns like this: the sad, silent Indians lamenting pollution on TV spots. But this time, Cypress is determined to "do something a lot of politicians and environmental groups don't always like Indians to do: speak." And win lawsuits. The tiny tribe has seized a leading role...
...Miccosukees are trying to navigate an environmental Third Way. They've stood up to Everglades polluters like Florida's powerful sugar industry. But they've also taken on ecology groups who complain that the plan won't restore the Everglades to anything like its original condition--an idealistic stance that the Miccosukees say could only slow the project and cloud its focus. "The Miccosukees' role has been prophetic," says Allison DeFoor, Everglades adviser to Florida Governor Jeb Bush. "They've articulated a vision for the Everglades and made it move...