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Republicans took control of Congress last January armed with a sweeping agenda to undo decades of regulation and in many cases tilt the laws toward industry and away from consumers, workers and even investors. Why, then, has it been so hard to enact pro-business laws? To the dismay of many giant media and telephone companies this week, quarreling among House Republicans has jeopardized a bill that would overhaul decades of outdated regulations. And that is hardly the only ambitious Republican initiative that has hit a roadblock. Bills that would slash environmental regulations, reduce the bargaining power of labor unions and
Gains in the Vitamin War
The take-no-prisoners partisanship that marred the closing days of the 103d Congress did not prevent lawmakers from approving a bill resolving one hotly contested issue: how to regulate the health claims made by the manufacturers of vitamins and other dietary supplements. Few issues this session generated as much grass-roots emotion, largely because the supplement industry waged a well-financed scare campaign that had many health-minded Americans convinced, wrongly, that the Food and Drug Administration was about to ban these popular products. The compromise measure approved in the session's waning hours could be tougher in curbing misleading nutritional claims. But it is
Legislation That Will Grant FDA Authority To Regulate Tobacco Products
Markup law, the issuance of the FDA (Food and Drug Administration), the authority on tobacco regulation was amended by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. The bill, HR 1108, the family and the prevention of smoking has been Tobacco Control Act parties with the support of 38 to 12 years. John D. Dingell (D-MI), chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, said: "The legislation of the commission to approve today, to protect the lives of Americans, and especially our youth, by harmful effects of tobacco. Cigarettes, tobacco leading cause of preventable death in the United States, and this law
Product Liability Bill Backed
LEAD: The House Energy and Commerce Committee today approved a product liability bill that consumer advocates maintain constitutes an assault on the legal rights of victims of hazardous goods. The House Energy and Commerce Committee today approved a product liability bill that consumer advocates maintain constitutes an assault on the legal rights of victims of hazardous goods. The compromise measure, which is given virtually no chance of passing Congress this year, would establish uniform Federal liability standards for lawsuits over defective consumer goods and would pre-empt conflicting but generally stronger state laws. A similar measure died on the Senate floor
A Disturbing And Dangerous Tariff Project.
The Dingley Tariff bill is dead. For some time past we have expressed the opinion that the Republican leaders would be compelled to give up all hope of passing it. The proceedings in the caucus of the Republican Senators yesterday indicate that the bill will be dropped.
Senate Kills Legislation To Curb Liability Suits
The Senate today killed legislation aimed at reducing damages that manufacturers pay to injured consumers in product liability lawsuits. The issue has been simmering in Congress for years, with manufacturers and insurance companies on one side and consumer groups and trial lawyers on the other. The election season added spice, with the Bush Administration pushing for the measure and the Democratic candidate for President, Bill Clinton, opposing it. This year's measure would have created several incentives for plaintiffs and defendants in product-liability cases to settle their differences out of court and thereby reduce the burden on the legal system. Proponents
Clinton Promises to Veto Product Liability Bill
President Clinton said today that if Congress approved pending legislation to limit damage awards in lawsuits involving faulty products he would veto the measure because it did not provide enough protection for consumers. In breaking a yearlong silence on the issue, Mr. Clinton appeared to deal a crippling blow to a largely Republican-inspired effort to overhaul the nation's civil litigation system and aid the business community. Mr. Clinton's statement that the bill would put consumers at a disadvantage comes just two days before a crucial vote in the Senate. Supporters of the measure have been working to preserve a fragile
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Mark McGwire's little home run pill is about to be pulled off the shelves. That's the intent of a new bill sponsored by influential senators on both sides of the aisle, who introduced legislation late Thursday night that would prevent the over-the-counter sale of androstenedione and its muscle-building chemical cousins. The bill would also ban THG, the substance at the center of a growing scandal involving several elite athletes. "These substances, called steroid precursors or pro-steroids, are one step removed from the substances [regulated] in the law," Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Delaware, said on the Senate floor. "When ingested, they metabolize into
Best Protected by the Seamen’s Bill or the London Convention?
A letter recently published in your columns contains the statements that the habitual treatment of seamen has been oppressive, that their rights were not secured, and that in effect they had been regarded as outside the protection of the law. This apparently was stated as an excuse for the passage of the Seamen's bill by the last Congress. Source : query.nytimes.com
Class-Action Bill Favorable To Business Passes House
A partisan battle over the nation's civil justice system reached the floor of the House of Representatives today as Republicans pushed through a bill explicitly intended to protect corporations against the high cost of class-action lawsuits in state courts. The bill was approved tonight, 233 to 190, with support from 215 Republicans, 17 Democrats and 1 independent. The measure was opposed by 184 Democrats, 5 Republicans and 1 independent. Opponents of the bill, including some consumer groups and plaintiffs' lawyers, said they believed that they would be able to block it in the Senate. In theory, class actions provide an