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Whatever that bill's ultimate fate, the tobacco wars are sure to drag on like a bad habit. This week several major health organizations and a bipartisan group of Governors will publicly rededicate themselves to the fight, waged with sin taxes, lawsuits, and no-smoking areas. Yet some legal experts doubt that the the Medicaid-reimbursement suits will be the decisive new weapon. Says Stephen Sugarman, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley: "My feeling is that a lot of these untried methods have a dubious likelihood of success." But as any nicotine addict knows, when people want...
Brushing aside still more White House warnings, House Republicans also passed a defense and foreign policy bill that would cut back U.S. financing of U.N. peacekeeping operations, restrict American troops from serving under U.N. command, and create a $1.5 million bipartisan commission to study national-security strategy. The usually solid Republican majority cracked, however, when two dozen party members helped defeat a provision that would have required prompt deployment of a national missile-defense system...
...Gingrich wanted to wage during the first 100 days. But just wait until the next hundred. The new Republican majority in Congress is getting ready to position Democrats as die-hard defenders of preferential treatment for minorities. (The fact that affirmative action also benefits women, making it potentially a bipartisan perk, isn't mentioned much in the present debate.) Last week Senate majority leader and presidential candidate Bob Dole let drop on NBC's Meet the Press that he had asked the Congressional Research Service to compile a list of all bills that offer special preferences for minorities. While acknowledging...
...House overwhelmingly approved-by a bipartisan vote of 360 to 74-a G.O.P.-sponsored bill that would restrict Congress's ability to impose new unfunded mandates upon the states. The majority ignored objections from some Democrats that the measure would weaken federal protections for the poor and the environment. Minor differences need to be ironed out with the Senate before the legislation goes to President Clinton, who has said he supports it. In the Senate, positions hardened over a balanced-budget amendment, as key Democrats sought to protect Social Security from future cuts and pin down Republicans on precisely...
...comfortably exceeding the two-thirds majority needed. The measure, which was stripped of a controversial provision that would have required a three-fifths majority vote for future tax increases, now goes to the Senate, where it faces a more uncertain fate. The Senate, meanwhile, approved by a bipartisan vote of 86 to 10 a bill restricting the power of Congress to impose unfunded mandates upon the states. The Simpson Case The extraordinary O.J. Simpson murder trial ground to a halt, as prosecution objections and vitriolic exchanges between opposing attorneys interrupted opening arguments and sent Judge Lance Ito scurrying...