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Overall, Clinton would limit government-spending growth to the rate of increase in personal income, which has been rising anemically for the past 20 years. Only investments in "wealth-producing, future-oriented" programs like research and development would enjoy deficit financing. Clinton would push for union work-rule revisions, and...
Conferees rejected a Senate provision imposing sharp new limits on appeals that state prisoners--particularly awaiting execution--can file in federal court in favor of a tough but less restrictive version passed by the House.
Dropped from the House-Senate compromise was a Senate-passed provision that would make street handgun murders a federal crime punishable by death.
Proponents argued that this provision would allow prosecution of someone where authorities could not directly prove that drug-dealing had caused the overdose deaths of users.
The negotiators also rejected a House provision, backed by Bush, that would allow improperly seized evidence to be used in federal court. Instead, the negotiators adopted a Senate provision that would allow such evidence only if police make a "good faith" mistake in executing a search warrant.