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- <title>
- Feb. 15, 1993: Deadlock Breaker
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 15, 1993 The Chemistry of Love
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 15
- NATION
- Deadlock Breaker
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Family leave is finally law under Clinton and a Democratic
- Congress
- </p>
- <p> Every President relishes a sun-drenched rose Garden ceremony,
- but Bill Clinton's signing last Friday of the family-leave bill
- must have been especially welcome at the White House. After
- losing his first nominee for Attorney General and scrapping with
- Congress and the Pentagon over gays in the military, Clinton
- finally brought home a winner: the family-leave bill, which had
- endured eight years of Capitol Hill lobbying and two vetoes by
- George Bush. Said Clinton: "The first bill I am to sign as
- President truly puts people first. I am very appreciative that
- the Congress has moved so rapidly."
- </p>
- <p> Approved in the Senate by a largely bipartisan vote of 71
- to 27 and in the House 247 to 152, the bill will require
- companies with at least 50 employees to offer 12 weeks of unpaid
- leave each year to care for an ill family member, a newborn or
- an adopted child. Employers must maintain health-insurance
- coverage for absent workers and allow them to take the same job
- or an equivalent on their return.
- </p>
- <p> The bill's final hurdle was a proposal by Senate
- Republicans to amend it with a reinstatement of the ban on
- homosexuals in the military. But Congress opted for a
- "comprehensive review" of that policy in hearings scheduled to
- begin in March.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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