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The Senate bill differs from the House version in several respects. A provision allows welfare recipients to count a second year of college or vocational school as fulfilling the work requirement of the welfare law.
Whenever Congress writes new tax laws, it makes mistakes. Usually they get fixed. But when such an error granted a windfall to those who inherit estates worth more than $17 million a year, Rep. Bill Archer (R., Texas), chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, made sure that provision stayed...
Re your article on environmental activists protesting an international trade agreement [NATION, April 27]: I want to point out that the National Wildlife Federation and other like-minded groups aren't antiglobalists. We know that properly balanced trade rules can assist nations in achieving the economic growth necessary to afford...
Keeping Dobson and other Christian-right leaders happy has become the central preoccupation of Republican lawmakers. In the House, the legislative agenda is crammed with "pro-family" votes aimed at Dobson's constituency. Last week alone, the House voted to ban federal support of needle exchanges for drug addicts, passed...
Even in the Senate, where lawmakers are usually more immune to pressure, the Christian right is proving its influence. Last week conservatives scored a victory when a bill designed to pay the overdue U.S. debt to the United Nations passed the Senate with an extraneous provision attached to it that...