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- <title>
- Jun. 06, 1994: Polotics:Time On Capitol Hill
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Jun. 06, 1994 The Man Who Beat Hitler
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- TIME ON CAPITOL HILL, Page 19
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- <body>
- <p>Dear Reader,
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- <p> In recent weeks, Congress has acted on several controversial
- issues. Here's how your Representative and Senators cast their
- votes:
- </p>
- <p> THE ISSUES
- </p>
- <p> VOTE 1
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- <p> ASSAULT WEAPONS: In a lobbying showdown between the National
- Rifle Association and the gun-control movement, the House voted
- 216 to 214 on May 5 to ban the sale of 19 designated assault
- weapons. Last fall the Senate passed a similar measure 50 to
- 49. Now an uncontested part of the Omnibus Anti-Crime Bill,
- the weapons ban will face its next legislative test when reconciliation
- is completed, probably in the next two weeks.
- </p>
- <p> VOTE 2
- </p>
- <p> ACCESS TO ABORTION CLINICS: On consecutive Thursdays in early
- May, both the House and the Senate adopted a joint conference
- report that creates federal civil and criminal penalties for
- those who use force, the threat of force or physical obstruction
- to block access to abortion clinics. The measure, which President
- Clinton signed into law last week, passed in the House 241 to
- 174 and in the Senate by a vote of 69 to 30. First-time violators
- can be fined up to $100,000; repeat offenders could get penalties
- of $250,000 and three years in prison.
- </p>
- <p> BOSNIAN ARMS EMBARGO: Within half an hour on May 12, the Senate
- voted twice to lift the arms embargo widely believed to be handicapping
- the Bosnian Muslim side in the Balkan conflict. The outcomes
- were numerically identical--50 to 49--but the vote lineup
- was quite different.
- </p>
- <p> VOTE 3
- </p>
- <p> UNILATERAL TERMINATION: Sponsored by minority leader Robert
- Dole, this version amounted to a challenge to President Clinton,
- directing him to lift the U.S. embargo unilaterally, contrary
- to Administration policy.
- </p>
- <p> VOTE 4
- </p>
- <p> ALLIED CONSULTATION: Crafted by majority leader George Mitchell
- as a means of blunting Dole's challenge, this amendment merely
- called upon the President to seek a U.N. Security Council resolution
- and NATO support for lifting the embargo. Not a single Republican
- voted in favor.
- </p>
- </body>
- </article>
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