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House approves anti-crime bill
Clinton said he was "very grateful" to the Republicans who helped negotiate the package with Democrats after the House shelved an earlier $33.5 billion version on Aug. 11.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — With moderate Republicans providing the margin of victory, the House last night approved a $30 billion anti-crime package that would help put 100,000 more police on the streets and ban assault-style firearms. The vote gave President Clinton a needed victory.
"This is the way Washington should work, and I hope it works this way in the future," Clinton said of the bipartisan effort.
Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he expected his chamber to begin debate on the bill today.
Democrats will need Republican help to obtain the 60 votes needed to
overcome procedural obstacles that most GOP senators are expected to support. Biden predicted he will get the votes.
"They're going to do everything they can to stop it, but it's going to be awfully hard to stop." Biden said.
But the Senate Judiciary Committee's ranking Republican, Orrin Hatch of Utah, said he will demand that even more funds be moved from prevention to punishment.
"It still may collapse," Hatch said. Nonetheless, the House vote was a
victory for Clinton and for the moderate Republicans.
The president lobbied strenuously for the bill and dispatched several top Cabinet officials to Capitol Hill to lobby in person yesterday.
It was a defeat for the National Rifle Association, which lobbied to block the bill.
But NRA's chief jobbisty, Tanya Metakaş, did not see it that way. "It'a defeat for the American people," she said.
White House has doubts on health care
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — In public, a determined President Clinton urges the nation onward on what he calls the final leg of a long journey toward health reform.
In private, some in the White House are starting to think the unthinkable: Is it possible that there will be no health care reform this year?
Behind the upbeat public pronouncements by administration officials, there are doubts.
- White House officials who have devoted much of the last year to the health care reform effort are reluctant to admit even in private that they might not reach their goal.
But they acknowledge that the outcome is largely dependent on an uncertain and deeply divided Congress.
Chief of Staff Leon Panetta sounded less than sure about White House prospects Sunday. "I still think there's a good chance we'll get universal coverage," he told ABC.
Clinton himself reflected that uncertainty at a news conference Friday, when he exhorted Congress to "keep working, keep working at it."
"If we don't move now, there's a chance that it won't happen at all," he said. "If you delay, you may well lose it altogether."
Delay is exactly what is occurring on Capitol Hill.
Where each chamber once was to have completed its version of health reform before Labor Day, no House votes are expected until after that date and Republicans want to hold off on Senate action as well.
Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., told CBS yesterday that a health care bill would pass this year, but not until October and not with tax increases other than on cigarettes.
Even Democrats in Congress talk in increasingly gloomy terms these days.
Sen. Bob Kerrey, D-Neb., said lawmakers were suffering from "sticker shock" at the potential costs of health reform. Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga, predicted the Senate was "weeks if not
months away" from casting meaning-ful votes.
With legislators hoping to adjourn for the year in early October, that doesn't leave much time.
One White House official who spoke on condition of anonymity described Clinton as hopeful about prospects for health reform, but "realistic about the magnitude of the task and the enormity of the issue and the forces that are out there to shoot it down."
Clinton recognizes, the official said, the possibility "of the calendar running out."
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