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DISPATCHES | Issue: "Castro’s license to kill?" August 03, 1996

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Third time's the charm?

The House July 18 and the Senate July 23 approved a welfare-reform bill that moves closer to President Clinton's latest-stated objections to the Republican overhaul plan. Mr. Clinton has vetoed two previous congressional welfare bills. The current compromise appears to contain a $57.2 billion reduction in the growth of welfare spending over six years; a five-year lifetime limit on welfare benefits; and an end to the federal welfare entitlement, through the block-granting of funds to state agencies for their distribution.

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On Capitol Hill, the House voted unanimously July 23 to repeal the decades-old government food-safety standard of zero tolerance of trace pesticides in processed foods. Because detection technology has so dramatically improved, very-low-risk traces are readily found. On July 22, the House gave final approval to a measure creating a federal gambling commission; the panel will work for two years and will have limited subpoena powers. On July 17, the House retained a policy barring abortion coverage in federal employee health benefit plans. The Treasury Department reported July 22 that the federal budget deficit is 40 percent lower than at this time last year. Finally, Newsweek columnist and CBS television analyst Joe Klein admitted July 17 that he was the anonymous author who penned the scandalous Primary Colors book, which was widely believed to be a fictional but accurate account of the 1992 Clinton for President campaign.

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