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Beyond that, they opposed it for the simple reason that the President wanted it. Because it would have allowed them to present themselves as tough on crime, Democrats badly needed the bill for their re-election bids this fall. "Don't give it to them" was the message the Republican...
As a starting point, Mitchell's plan is full of ingenious devices for reconciling the conviction that health-care reform is a good thing with the no-less-common belief that paying for it is not. It aims to achieve coverage for 95% of all Americans by the year 2000...
Even as President Clinton pushed for the resurrection of the crime bill, the House Democratic leadership is watering it down so that it can actually become a law, sources tell TIME Washington Correspondent Julie Johnson. Today, Clinton portrayed the bill as a memorial to high-profile crime victims like Polly...
Following weeks of impasse, House and Senate conferees finally settled their differences and agreed on a $30 billion crime bill. The compromise measure maintains a controversial ban on 19 assault weapons but drops an equally controversial provision that would have allowed death-row inmates to challenge their sentence on the...
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled on July 14 that a referendum on rent control does not violate the "home rule" provision of the state constitution. The home rule clause guarantees the right of individual communities to make decisions for themselves.