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Wednesday, September 9, 1992
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Andrew aid bill goes to Congress
WASHINGTON — President Bush asked Congress yesterday to provide more than $7.6 billion to help Florida and Louisiana recover from Hurricane Andrew's devastation. It would be the biggest federal relief package ever for a natural disaster.
The Associated Press
Lawmakers returning to the Capitol from their August break pledged quick action on the measure. But they prepared to add their own touches to it, raising questions about how rapidly it could be completed.
Legislators wrestled with the government's response to the storm as they began a pre-election session that promises political turbulence of its own.
"We're going to move it as fast as possible." Senate Majority Leader
Pending before the expected October adjournment are major family-leave and tax bills, which both face
vote threats from Bush. Congress still has to finish 12 of its 13 annual spending bills; Bush has threatened to carry any that exceed his budget proposals.
On the storm-relief bill, Congress positioned itself to begin moving muckly.
The chair of the House Appropriations Committee, Rep. Jamie Whitten, D-Miss., prepared to introduce his own version of the bill today, and the Senate Appropriations Committee planned to consider its own measure tomorrow. Senate floor debate is possible next week.
It is possible that the congressional bills would contain changes opposed by Bush. For example, one official who spoke on the condition of anonymity said Whiten't the bill would probably cost more than Bush's.
Even so, Bush momentarily abandoned his campaign-trail attacks against the gridlock Congress and predicted that a majority of
Democrats would cooperate on the measure.
And the magnitude of suffering ano destruction from Andrew seemed to ensure that action would be taken relatively quickly. The most expensive natural disaster in the nation's history. Andrew caused an estimated $20 billion in damage in Florida and $1.5 billion in Louisiana.
Fifty-two deaths have been linked to the storm, which also destroyed or damaged 97,000 homes in Florida and 14,000 in Louisiana. About 250,000 people were left homeless, 118,000 Florida homes and businesses are still without electricity.
The president's request for hurricane assistance would provide disaster payments, loans and social services to farmers, homeowners, renters, businesses and families. It would also help the federal and local governments repair buildings, schools, roads, waterways and sanitation projects.
Even as Bush's measure began circulating on Capitol Hill, there were indications that local officials might consider it too little.
Florida Gov. Lawton Chiles, a democrat and former senator, lobbed his one-time colleagues, saying his state would need $6 billion to $8 billion, And Sen. Bennett Johnston, D-La., said he believed Bush's measure had some gaps needing to be filled in.
The biggest federal packages for natural disaster aid have provided nearly $2.9 billion to help victims of the Loma Prieta earthquake in California, and $1.1 billion in aid for victims of Hurricane Hugo. Both measures were approved in 1990.
In other action yesterday, the Senate opened debate on a bill aimed at reducing the size of awards that people can collect from manufacturers and their insurance companies when injured by faulty products.
Bush says if the shoe fits, blame lawyers
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — It is no secret that Americans do not like lawyers. The question is whether they dislike them enough to turn lawyer-bashing and legal reform into winning issues for President Bush.
The trial lawyer's tasseled loafer, immortalized in Bush's convention speech last month, has succeeded the welfare queen's Cadillac as a Republican symbol of what's wrong with the United States.
He said legal costs were a major reason for the country's economic problems because they drove up prices, inhibited product development and cost jobs.
Bush devoted nearly a third of his Labor Day kickoff speech to what he called a crazy, out-of-control
Democrats say that argument will not fly.
unfunded and gun-related.
"He's a lover of it, to tip us to convince very many people that the central economic problem of this country is lawyers. A lot more of them believe George Bush is the central economic problem," said Mark Mellman, a pollster for the Democratic National Committee.
Bush this week displayed little of the belligence that characterized his acceptance speech. He said
then that Democratic rival Bill Clinton was supported by every trial lawyer who ever wore a tasseled loafer while he, the president, would climb into the ring with the lawyers.
The Clinton campaign weighed in yesterday with some post-Labor Day spin.
"George Bush attacking lawyers is like Arnold Schwarzenegger complaining about violence in the movies," said George Stephanopoulos, community activist and founder of campaign contributors is lawyers and lobbyists.
Surveys show Americans do not like or trust lawyers, and pollsters say they have found the public does make a connection between lawyers and the high costs of automobile and health insurance.
But independent researchers have found no basis to the administration's larger claim that the country's legal system has compromised its competitiveness, trial lawyer Bob Gibbons said in an article in the National Law Journal last year.
Bush, who has proposed limits on damage awards and other steps, is nevertheless making the broad economic case. He bolstered his argument yesterday with a forthcoming National Association of Manufacturers study that contends businesses spend $100 billion a year on lawsuits.
Legal costs adds 15 to 20 percent to product prices and lead to job losses at small businesses, said economist and NAM president Jerry Isaskowiak. The top six problems cited by businesses of all sizes.
The public probably does not understand those economic ramifications, but legal reform is a powerful issue anyway. Jasinowski said.
Democratic pollster Geoffrey Garin said Bush and Vice President Quayle, a fervent supporter of overhauling the legal system, needed the issue for another reason.
Trial lawyers themselves have not said much since Bush thrust them into the campaign spotlight. The Association of Trial Lawyers of America is remaining neutral in the election, and the group's president refused to be interviewed yesterday. But Madelyn Appelbaum, an ATL representative, defended the honor of her charges.
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