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...long ago stacked the deck against the players by exempting baseball from the antitrust laws, protection no other U.S. business enjoys. If the G.O.P. leadership were serious about getting the government out of things, it would join the call of Senators Orrin Hatch and Pat Moynihan to partly repeal the exemption. Fat chance. Beyond ``the stated reason that this should be resolved by the parties themselves,'' says Senator Bob Graham, there's also the fact ``that the owners have a significant amount of political clout, and they don't want Congress mucking around in this...
Three senior U.S. Senators today launched an attempt to end the six-month-old baseball strike with legislation that would partially repeal the sport's 73-year-old antitrust exemption. Players union head Donald Fehr lauded the bill, introduced by Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) and Bob Graham (D-Fla.). They want to let players mount court challenges -- as is done in other industries -- when owners unite to set labor restrictions. Congressional leaders, including House Speaker Newt Gingrich, are opposed to enacting legislation to solve the strike. Gingrich and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole...
...anti-Washington ``Contract with America'' is hardly surprising. As for the contract's insistence that the budget can be balanced in five years even if taxes are cut and defense spending is increased, Dole has said diplomatically, ``It would be difficult.'' In recent weeks, Dole has downplayed attempts to repeal the ban on assault weapons, and he appears genuinely repelled by the pain that the contract's welfare reforms could inflict...
...requiring criminals to pay full restitution to victims for damages resulting from their crimes. But the next five proposals, which would allow prosecutors to use evidence gathered in illegal searches, drew fire from some Democrats. The most contentious legislation has yet to hit the floor: a bill that would repeal the ban on assault weapons. The GOP leadership, warned by President Clinton that he would veto any attempt to repeal, has shelved discussion on that bill for several weeks...
...case of the assault-weapons ban, the Speaker acted more aggressively. Though Republican leaders know they have to allow a repeal vote eventually, Clinton's State of the Union vow to fight a rollback caused the National Rifle Association to demand a quick show of strength in the House, something Gingrich fears will turn voters off before the 100 days are up. Determined not to let the issue derail his contract, Gingrich came up with a compromise that the N.R.A. reluctantly accepted: February hearings that would allow progun groups to speak, followed by a vote sometime in the spring...