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...grueling 14-hour opening day that ended after midnight, House Speaker Newt Gingrich rammed through a series of changes designed to overhaul how the lower chamber does business. Highlights: committee staffs were slashed by a third; a cap of eight years was established on the term of any speaker (committee chairs will be limited to six years); a requirement for a three-fifths vote to raise income tax rates was passed and legislation to make Congress obey anti-discrimination and other laws was given an enthusiastic thumbs up. The chamber also voted 431-0 to keep all committee meetings open...
...first pitch in what is certain to be an legal slugfest over the baseball owners' effort to implement a salary cap headed for the courts today as the players union filed unfair labor practices charges and asked federal officials to block the cap by seeking a court injunction. Meanwhile, the owners counterattacked asking the same federal panel ---- the National Labor Relations Board -- to find that the players' union is negotiating in bad faith...
Major-league baseball owners voted to declare an impasse and implement a salary cap -- the first step on the road to a 1995 season played by scab major leaguers -- if there is no settlement in the sport's four-month-old strike...
...thumbs up to old Roger during this holiday season, even if he threatens to walk away from baseball if a salary cap is passed. He means well--he should just keep his trap shut a little more often. Hopefully Canseco can teach him a thing or two when he speeds into town...
Major league baseball team owners today abandoned their announced plans to put in place the controversial cap on players' salaries. Instead, owners voted 25-3 to take seven days to try to reach a negotiated settlement with players to avoid starting the next season with replacement players. Players were set to start a lengthy legal battle as early as tomorrow over the cap -- a near-complete makeover for baseball's business side that would do away with the salary arbitration and free agency players fought for and won 20 years...