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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, October 29, 1991
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Women's groups oppose limits on damages in civil rights bill
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — With the main disputes already settled, the Senate turned to amendments on lesser issues in the civil rights bill yesterday, as women's groups simmered about the measure's limits on damages in sexual discrimination cases.
The Senate is expected to vote on final passage today after working through amendments yesterday evening.
One or more amendments were planned to extend the bill's coverage.
Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, has been planning such an amendment for weeks. Democratic leaders were meeting to come up with their own compromise measure that would give congressional employees a method of complaint against harassment complaints, with access to federal court if unsatisfied.
President Bush and Senate leaders of both parties reached agreement last week on a compromise version of the bill that appeared to resolve the politically explosive issue of quotas.
The strength of that agreement could be tested if Sen. Tim Wirth, D-Colo., proceeds with his plan to offer an amendment that would eliminate
the bill's fixed-dollar limitation on damages that could be awarded in cases of sexual discrimination.
Women's groups fiercely opposed those limits, which Democrats said Bush insisted on as a condition of agreeing to the compromise. The bill expands the rights of victims of sexual harassment and discrimination to sue, but it would leave those cases on unequal footing with victims of racial discrimination, for whom limits would not apply.
Those women's groups continued to voice opposition to the limits, but they appeared to be reluctantly accepting the compromise with the promise of Democratic leaders that they would limit their employers' damage limits. The limits range from $50,000 to $300,000, depending on the size of the employer.
"We're not happy with the damages, obviously," said Betsy Hildebrandt, representative for the National Law Center. "We're not opposing the bill."
Patricia Reilly, representative for the National Women's Political Caucus, said, "We recognize the improvements in the legislation to restore the rights of women in the nation. However, we can't support a bill that does not include full equity for
women."
Despite Bush's agreement, business groups that had opposed the bill continued to oppose it, but none held out serious hope of stopping it.
The National Federation of Independent Business seized on the issue of congressional coverage in an attempt to oppose the bill. It sent a letter to Bush urging a vet if it did not contain the amendment.
Mike Roush, lobbyist for the small-business group, said that he and other business-group lobbyists were informed Friday morning of Bush's turnabout on the bill. He said C. Boyden Gray, the president's legal counsel, told the business groups at a White House meeting that Bush reached an agreement because so many Republican senators were falling away from the administration's opposition
"They saw the Senate slipping away as far as the votes to sustain a veto," Roush said.
Bush vetooed a similar bill last year, and the Senate sustained it by a single vote. Roush said that Gray told the business groups that the administration would not allow Bush's veto this time, they would be unable to sustain it in the House.
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