...Mark A. Peterson Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 References Daily Tax Reporter. 1991 . 9 October, pp. Gl -2. Kaiser. 1991 . Poll Shows National Health Insurance as Pivotal Issue in Pennsylvania Senate Race. Press release, 8 November, Kaiser Family Foundation...

... the U.S. Senate’s response to AIDS between 1987 and 1992. Our study found that Schneider and Ingram’s model provides important insights into how political processes affect AIDS policy design. While our data did not strictly conform to all of the model’s theoretical expectations, the data provided evidence...

... . The Effects of AMA Contributions in the U.S. Senate: An Analysis of Roll Call Votes, 1979–1992. Ph.D. Diss., Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA. Hall , Richard L. , and Frank W. Wayman. 1990 . Buying Time: Moneyed Interests and the Mobilization of Bias in Congressional Committees. American...

...; beginning in 1998, physicians promoted legislation that would exempt independent practitioners from the antitrust laws for collective bargaining purposes. Both initiatives passed in the House of Representatives but failed in the Senate. This article uses an advocacy coalition framework to reinterpret...

... by Democrats in the House and an evenly divided Senate. However, there may be other opportunities for reducing prescription drug spending and improving health insurance enrollment among the uninsured. While directly lowering drug prices would provide the most widespread savings for payers and patients alike...

... to specific services, including reproductive health care, among those with insurance. Any attempts to modify or build on the ACA will likely be complicated by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic as well as slim Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, but regulatory solutions will likely be easier...

...David A. Pearson; David S. Abernethy In April 1977, the Administration's Hospital Cost Containment Act was introduced in the House of Representatives and the Senate. Reaction to the proposal on the part of the hospital industry was immediate and generally negative. The congressional response has...

...—-the 1991 victory of Harris Wofford in a special Senate race in Pennsylvania. A content analysis of media coverage of that election reveals that journalists and politicians rapidly interpreted Wofford’s triumph as a sign of broad-based public support for reform. This widely shared interpretation redefined...

... votes short in the Senate. According to an extensive body of scholarship, this near miss should have been nearly impossible. The political fallout associated with dismantling social programs, as well as their entrenchment in social and economic life, should deter electorally sensitive politicians from...

... promoted by Republican senators to deflect support for President Bill Clinton's Health Security plan. Yet the ACA was also a policy legacy of the Clinton administration in important ways that rarely are acknowledged, notably Medicaid expansion and insurance company regulation. Although the ACA departed...

... In 1992, Senator Kerrey (D-NE) began his campaign for the presidency with a promise for health care reform, appealing to middle class voters across the country. Presidential candidate Bill Clinton capitalized on this same issue, calling attention to the 36 million uninsured Americans and going one...

.... roperweb.ropercenter.uconn.edu (accessed December 1, 2008). Hacker, J. S. 1997 . The Road to Nowhere: The Genesis of President Clinton's Plan for Health Security . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Hulse, C. 2009 . Democrats Eye Maine Senator for a Health Vote. New York Times , August 29 . Jacobs, L...

... to determine whether or not to grant a waiver and must promulgate regulations to implement this section. No waiver can last longer than five years, and waivers can be renewed by the state and the secretary. The architect and achiever of section 1332 is Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), the recently installed...

... agreed to work together to report legislation the majority of the House could and did support. On the Senate side, the investment showed in the role of the chair of the Senate Committee on Finance. While Clinton had faced a skeptic in then chair Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-­NY), Obama had...

...: Abstracts of Congressional Publications and Legislative History Citations. Washington, DC. Davidson , Roger H. 1989 . Multiple Referral of Legislation in the U.S. Senate. Legislative Studies Quarterly 14 ( 3 ): 375 -392. Davidson , Roger H. , Walter J Oleszek, and Thomas Kephart. 1988...

...-thirds living in either the St. Louis or Kansas City metropolitan areas. Statewide contests are competitive. Since 1900 fourteen Democrats and nine Republicans have held the office of governor. There have been eleven Democratic senators and ten Republicans. In 1982 there were six Democrats to four...

... lawsuits to declare parts of the law unconstitutional. This polarized partisan reaction was not surprising considering that the final bills received no Republican votes in either the House or the Senate, 1 a “standard of unanimity in opposition only twice previously achieved in the post–World War II era...