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...also directed Project 88, a bipartisan endeavor co-chaired by former Sen. Timothy E. Wirth '61 (D-Colo.) and Sen. John Heinz (R-Va.) that worked on developing market-based solutions to environmental problems. That initiative was credited for helping to break a Congressional deadlock in 1990 over the Clean Air Act amendments...
...Washington's latest money mess. Until now Democrats have taken the hit for fund-raising excesses, providing grist for investigations by the Justice Department and 11 congressional committees and prompting calls for an independent counsel. But as Young's secret role shows, the lure of easy foreign money is bipartisan. Young's business depends in large part on Western access to Chinese markets and a secure Taiwan, objectives pushed by Republicans and the think tank he backed. That agenda, the Young case shows, has been successfully promoted by Asian interests who contributed big money to both major parties...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Some 16 months after House lawmakers imposed a partial gift ban on themselves, members of a bipartisan ethics committee are considering easing the restrictions. According to New York Republican Gerald Solomon, the current ban is too inflexible and should be replaced with one which allows members to accept gifts worth up to $50, the maximum amount now allowed in the Senate. TIME's James Carney says the panel's initiative will most likely die on the vine: "It probably won't go anywhere, because the House passed this thing with a lot of self congratulation, and to back...
...wonder Senate majority leader Trent Lott was so furious. Instead of working with his leadership to produce a Republican proposal, Hatch devised a bipartisan bill with Kennedy that Republicans will be hard pressed to oppose. Rather than create a Washington-run program, the bill gives block grants to the states to subsidize private insurance for uninsured children, pays for itself by raising taxes on cigarettes and then diverts $10 billion of the five-year proceeds to cutting the deficit. "It's good for children, it will reduce teenage smoking, and it will lower the deficit," Hatch says...
Kennedy's announcement is all the more encouraging because the bill was co-written by Republican Sen. Orrin G. Hatch of Utah, a conservative. One would therefore think that the bill would receive widespread bipartisan support. But some prominent Republicans have taken to calling it the "Kennedy Bill," and so it is now far from clear that the bill will pass. Certainly, the tobacco companies will protest the legislation. However, we believe that their recent legal--and consequently political--difficulties make it less likely that they will succeed this time. We would like to see both parties and both houses...