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Bills: casualties of partisan wars
Republicans may win in November
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — With Republicans swinging the axe, Congress is piling one casualty upon another in a sharply partisan run-up to this fall's elections. A bill to rein in lobbyists became the latest victim yesterday, joining others on health care, campaign spending and the environment.
"We're the ones trying to do things," retiring Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell said this week as he maneuvered against a series of year-end Republican filibusters. "And they're the ones trying to prevent it."
But Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, anticipating strong Republican gains on Nov. 8 replied, "The answer is it's a bad bill, America wants it killed. And we've got a lot of bad bills by people about to lose power."
Democrats concede they're likely to lose seats this fall. Republicans
stand a chance to win the seven seats necessary to gain control of the Senate and a slimmer opportunity to end 40 years of Democratic rule in the House.
Congressional races aside, Democrats say presidential politics are behind the year-end gridlock.
"They don't want him (President Clinton) to have any success at all," said Sen. David Pror. D-Ark.
For their part, Republicans say Clinton mismanaged the bill to implement GATT, a global trade accord. By delaying a vote until the end of the session, said Rep. Richard Arney, RTexas, the White House placed the measure into an "unsafe environment." Democrats would be tempted to oppose it out of deference to organized labor's opposition, he said, while Republican would oppose it out of fear of a backlash from voters who supported Ross Perot in 1992.
"We know darned good and well if it fails it will lose because they (the Democrats) didn't the votes and we also know they will say it's Republican grillock," Army said.
With Democratic Sen. Ernest Hollings of South Carolina exercising his right to delay a vote for 45 days, GATT has been put aside until a lame duck session. The House will vote after Thanksgiving as well because Republicans, whose votes are essential for passage, demanded a delay.
Whatever the outcome of the Nov. 8 elections, the final few weeks of the session have devastated the legislative agenda Clinton and the Democratic leaders promoted.
While an education bill was enacted this week over a Republican fillibuster, the rest of the year-end ledger looks like this:
Health reform, the centerpiece of the Democratic program, died without coming to a vote in either House. Mitchell blamed Republicans and special interest opposition. Senate GOP Leader Bob Dole said public opposition killed the effort and that Democrats never coalesced behind a single bill.
A bill to overhaul campaign finance laws died in a Republican-led filibuster, although the GOP's hand
was strengthened when Democrats took a year to reach agreement on a compromise.
The principal Republican opponent, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, called the measure a "turkey" with provisions for public financing that would have created an "entitlement for politicians."
The bill to ban virtually all gifts to lawmakers and impose stronger disclosure requirements on lobbyists perished when the Senate upheld a filibuster Thursday, 52-46. Ten Democrats joined 36 Republicans to kill the bill in response to last-minute objections that it would have hampered grassroots groups by requiring them to disclose their memberships and contributors.
Superfund, an attempt to rewrite the toxic waste cleanup law, was pronounced dead Thursday by Democrats. They said Republicans had threatened a string of amendments that would split a broad coalition that had been pushing for passage. Republicans said the measure could wait for next year.
More Americans are living in poverty
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The number of Americans living in poverty climbed past 39 million last year, the most since 1961 and an unwelcome surprise in the second year after the end of a recession.
Income growth seems to be concentrated among better-off Americans, Daniel H. Weinberg of the Census Bureau said yesterday. "The long-term trend in the U.S. has been toward increasing income inequality," he said.
The Census Bureau's annual poverty report said 39.3 million people fell below the poverty level in 1993, the most since 39.6 million in 1961, which was nearly 22 percent of the population at that time.
Poverty in 1993 was defined as an income of $14.763 for a family of four.
However, the 1992 poverty rate has previously been listed as 14.5 percent. The adjustment to 14.8 percent was to compensate for people previously undercounted and some problems in collecting the information.
Weinberg, chief of the bureau's Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division, said normally the poverty rate peaked in the year after the end of a recession, then begins to decline.
The growing number of poor pushed the poverty rate to 15.1 percent of all Americans, a share that officials termed "not statistically different" from 1992, when 38.0 million, or 14.8 percent, were poor.
"This recession ended in 1991. One could expect a higher poverty rate in 1992," he said, but added this year's rate is unusual.
David Payne of the Commerce Department's Office of Economic Conditions added, "This is a bit unusual in that the unemployment rate kept rising after the recession ended." He pointed out that the beginning and end of recessions are determined by the gross domestic product, not employment rates.
"It appears that some long-term trends, such as declining wages, overrode the positives, such as economic growth," Isaac Shapiro of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities said.
Abortion protester shot at
The Associated Press
BATON ROUGE, La. — A man picking his wife up at an abortion clinic yesterday shot at a demonstrator who had yelled, "You're killing your baby."
The protester was not hurt.
Ernest Robertson, 22, was charged with attempted second-degree murder, which is punishable by up to 50 years in prison. He was jailed pending a hearing.
Robertson was picking his wife up at the Delta Women's Clinic when she was approached by protester Richard Mahoney, said police representative Don Kelly.
Robertson and Mahoney exchanged words and began pushing and shoving each other, Kelly said.
"Mahoney was saying, 'You're killing your baby,'"
Brinkley said.
The clinic's owner, L.T. Brinkley, said he went outside and saw the men arguing.
Officials would not say whether the woman was an employee or a patient at the clinic, which provides abortions and other gynecological services. Authorities did not release the woman's name.
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