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...presidency, Bill Clinton signed into effect regulations designed to protect patients' records from the prying eyes of insurance companies, Internet chat rooms and nosy neighbors. A few days later, however, a newly inaugurated President Bush slammed on the brakes. It was important, the Bush White House said, for Tommy Thompson, the new head of Health and Human Services, to have time to look over the regulations. And, Bush added, a delay would also allow the American people to weigh in on the new rules. Skeptics assumed Bush was holding off to allow insurance industry bigwigs to pitch hard against...
...federal prisons. Make new programs that do less than old programs but will take a while for the public to evaluate. (We could do both, but then we wouldn’t have a tax cut!) When the Secretary of Housing and Human Services Tommy Thompson was confronted yesterday on proposed cuts to AIDS treatment, child abuse prevention and rural health care, he quickly changed the subject to new after-school programs and accused anyone who noted the difference of using “fuzzy Washington math...
...Wednesday morning McCain and Feingold orchestrated matters to produce precisely the same number of votes for the Thompson and Feinstein proposals, to force both sides to the table while assuring they were on exactly equal footing. The summit was supposed to last an hour and a half, but stretched on for three. "Outside of Vietnam, I don't think John's ever been in a room for three hours," adviser John Weaver said dryly...
...half a dozen Republicans sat on one side, the Democrats on the other; their anxious staffs were reduced to bringing in sandwiches and staying out of the way. For a long time neither side budged. The Democrats, Thompson feared, were going to walk, and he was ready to go back to the floor to lambaste them for killing the deal...
They were so, so close. The Democrats slipped into the chamber to huddle with a visibly tense Daschle. Back in the L.B.J. Room, Thompson proffered one last piece to seal the deal: the G.O.P. had moved much further on the hard-money limits; if the Democrats would index the limits for inflation, they had a deal. Feinstein shot out of the room to take the offer to Daschle, and for a few final moments the Republicans waited. When the deal was done, Thompson grabbed his throat with both hands, mock-choking over the compromise he had struck...