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The Senate followed North Carolina conservative Sen. Jesse Helms's lead with a 63-36 vote to cut off federal funds to any school district that teaches acceptance of homosexuality as a lifestyle. The proposal, by Helms and another Republican, New Hampshire Sen. Bob Smith, popped up in the middle...
The leaders of the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S. were supporting Bill Clinton's health plan years before he was born. Universal coverage? In 1919 they wrote, "The state should make comprehensive provision for insurance against illness, invalidity . . . and old age." Employer mandate? They stated that the "insurance fund...
The court ruled that a referendum on rent control does not violate the "home rule" provision in the state constitution.
Not much else is going Clinton's way either. The $30 billion anticrime bill -- supposed to pass in April -- is hung up again, largely once more by divisions among Democrats. Liberals and blacks in the House have added a provision designed to promote racial equality in administering the death penalty...
Even so, ardent supporters of Clinton's original plan, both in the White House and on the Hill, view the rump-group proposal as little more than a convenient, temporary tool for getting a proposal past the Finance Committee. Once that happens, they expect Mitchell to fashion a bill for...