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Nonetheless, Clinton's willingness to bend is the best indication that he may see a reform package on his desk this fall. For weeks, Senate Finance Committee chairman Daniel Patrick Moynihan had been trying to convince the White House that he lacked the votes to pass any plan, much less...
House Democrats united to fend off what they claimed (and some Republicans virtually conceded) to be Republican obstructionism on health care. The House Ways and Means Committee sided with other congressional committees and voted in favor of mandating employers to finance health insurance, with breaks for small businesses. But leaders...
The Supreme Court gave cable television greater free-speech rights than airwave competitors, nearly striking down a law that requires them to allot a third of their space to local broadcast stations. Four justices voted to rescind the "must carry" provision of the 1992 Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition...
Congress reconvened and immediately rolled up its sleeves to tackle health- care reform. Ted Kennedy's Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee approved, 11 to 6, its version of a Clinton-style package. And both the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee began work on similar...
Yet regulating that mix isn't easy. The House and Senate have approved drastically different versions of campaign-finance reform, each containing a provision to limit the use of personal assets. But unless there is a new Supreme Court test with an outcome different from the Valeo ruling, that ceiling...