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That deduction, which was removed from the law with the 1986 omnibus tax reform legislation, would cost significantly less than the President's proposals and would assist graduate students who will not benefit from the President's plans...
When it became clear that other Republicans, already bruised by the backlash to the perceived antienvironmental bias of their party, were unwilling to help him, Murkowski shifted his strategy. As Congress tried to adjourn, he vowed to hold up an omnibus parks bill that would, among many other provisions, protect Sterling Forest in the Northeast and provide funding for San Francisco's Presidio, a new national park, unless the Administration agreed to supply cheap timber for KPC's sawmills. He failed, settling for an agreement that would provide timber to the mills at market prices for a two-year transition...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Senate passed an omnibus spending bill Monday night by a 84-15 vote that came just hours before the beginning of the new fiscal year. President Clinton has said he will sign the bill before the midnight deadline, averting what would have been the third government shutdown in the past year. Unlike last year, when budget battles led to two government shutdowns that proved to be politically costly to Republicans, the GOP leadership this time for the most part gave in to Democratic demands. The bill is similar to the $389 billion measure passed overwhelmingly...
...memoir, Mrs. Dole remarks that she found the Senator "awfully attractive" but he didn't call her and she wouldn't call him. She ran into Dole again at the 1972 Republican Convention, and this time he did call. Their romance progressed with all the speed of an omnibus budget resolution wending its way through committee, and they were married in 1975. Elizabeth finally had her trophy husband...
PHILADELPHIA: In a major decision reaffirming guarantees of free speech, three federal judges blocked enforcement of the Communications Decency Act Wednesday, ruling that the Internet is protected by the First Amendment. Passed as part of the 1995 omnibus telecommunications overhaul bill, the act would make displaying "indecent" and "patently offensive" words or images on the Internet punishable by a $250,000 fine and two years in jail. For the Philadelphia judges, the key stumbling block was the question of whether the Internet could be regulated like a broadcast medium regarding indecency. Free speech, even indecent speech, is guaranteed...