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Opponents of anew Senate planto ban "indecent" material from the Internet and online servicesnow have a powerful ally in House Speaker Newt Gingrich.House members are already planning a far less restrictive approach: Reps. Christopher Cox (R-Calif.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) are pushing a plan to give parents, not the government, the power to block children's access to sexually explicit or obscene materials.TIME's Philip Elmer-DeWittsays the bill also would removeliability for online providersthat try to screen out obscene material themselves. A legal ruling against Prodigy last month held the service accountable for users' electronic postings precisely...
...commentsover electronic networks accessible to anyone under 18. Gingrich, an Internet enthusiast, acknowledged serious First Amendment and enforcement concerns and called the Senate bill "very badly thought out and not very productive." House members are already planning a far less restrictive approach: Reps. Christopher Cox (R-Calif.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) are pushing their own plan to give parents, not government, power to block children's access to sexually explicit or obscene materials...
...private matter between a woman and her doctor. "You can't stop a woman from visiting a doctor," a securities analyst who follows the drug industry told the Wall Street Journal. "It becomes a private transaction. And that's the end of the abortion battle." Congressman Ron Wyden of Oregon claims that once the drug arrives, "it will no longer be possible for these extremists to target centralized locations like clinics." Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe, grimly alluding to the murder earlier this year of an abortion doctor in Florida, says, "You won't know whom to kill...
...Rodham Clinton appeared last Thursday to be taking it easy. Her office announced that she had only one meeting planned -- with five female Senators to discuss health care. What her aides neglected to mention, however, was that before that session Hillary had a 45-minute chat with Representative Ron Wyden about the "core benefits" package that Oregon law guarantees its eligible residents. Then came an hourlong chat with Senator Jay Rockefeller, Representative Sonny Montgomery and others about how best to integrate the nation's $14 billion veterans' hospital system into a new national health-care framework. Next she tackled some...
...Wyden and others lay a large part of the blame for the S&L crisis at the door of the accounting profession. "Accountants didn't cause the S&L crisis," says Wyden. "But they could have saved taxpayers a lot of money if they did their jobs properly and set off enough warning alarms for regulators...