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With half a dozen House Republicans vying this year for a promotion to the Senate, it's not surprising that Senate majority leader Tom Daschle felt a new urgency to pass just about any bill that might deny them bragging rights. The final compromise, proposed by Democrat Bob Graham of Florida and Republican Gordon Smith of Oregon, would have limited coverage to seniors of low and modest income and to those who face catastrophic costs. It was skimpier than legislation that Democrats had earlier rejected as inadequate. This time it got the votes of all but five Democrats. But with...
...Bob Rubin is a person of the highest integrity,” Summers said, adding that from his own involvement he knew that allegations that Rubin broke the law in 1995 were baseless...
...best sign that Congress got its mojo working was movement on the politically explosive question of whether and how to provide prescription-drug benefits to the elderly. Few expected anything more than theater in the Senate. But quickly enough, Florida Democrat Bob Graham and Oregon Republican Gordon Smith proposed the outlines of a viable bipartisan compromise--one that offers full coverage to people with incomes under 150% of the poverty level and modest discounts to those earning more. Some Democratic strategists were worried that the party could be ceding one of its best issues this fall; one groused that...
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Cameos are almost as old as movie stars. In the 1928 Show People, Marion Davies doesn't notice that the fellow asking for her autograph is Charlie Chaplin. Bing Crosby and Bob Hope traded cameos in their '40s films. But this summer has a gleeful glut of celebs dropping in unannounced on other people's parties...