BUSINESS
July 7, 1991 | DEAN TAKAHASHI, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The debate in Congress about proposed civil rights legislation reflects a wide-ranging struggle--between Republicans and Democrats, minorities and whites, liberals and conservatives, and women and men. On an abstract level, the question centers on whether businesses should be color blind in their hiring or attempt to remedy past injustices by hiring and promoting women and minorities at the expense of white males. It engenders impassioned arguments.
BUSINESS
September 25, 1994 | DONALD W. NAUSS, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Looking for a new car and you want to buy American? Good luck. Buyers have long been confused about what actually constitutes an "American" car. Is a Pontiac Firebird made in Canada with a U.S.-built engine more American than a Nissan Altima made in Tennessee with an engine from Japan? Such questions have only gotten harder to answer as the auto industry becomes more global, foreign auto makers move more production to the United States and trade tensions periodically erupt.
NEWS
December 15, 2000 | NICK ANDERSON and PATRICK J. McDONNELL, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
With the 106th Congress nearing adjournment, a final burst of negotiations has produced only modest deals to ease immigration restrictions. The agreements are a far cry from sweeping reforms that President Clinton and congressional Democrats were pushing before the Nov.
NEWS
July 29, 2000 | ALISSA J. RUBIN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
No doubt about it, Dick Cheney, the Republican vice presidential candidate, had one of the most conservative voting records of any member of Congress during his five terms in the House. Most of the time, on issues from environmental safety to gun control, the former Wyoming congressman was marching in lock-step with President Reagan, if not always with fellow Republicans.
NEWS
August 2, 1994 | ROBERT SHOGAN, TIMES POLITICAL WRITER
Republican leaders denounced the Democratic approach to health reform Monday night in a nationally televised policy forum amid an intense behind-the-scenes debate over what strategy the GOP should pursue on the issue that now dominates the national political landscape. The hourlong program, carried live by C-SPAN and various satellite links around the country, was heralded as an attempt to show Americans that the GOP has its own solution to the nation's health care problems.
NEWS
January 1, 1997 | MELISSA HEALY and ROBERT A. ROSENBLATT, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
Overshadowed by the major political battles of 1996, a host of new federal policies quietly goes into effect today that will make a difference in the health and livelihoods of several segments of the U.S. population--particularly those who work for small businesses, are stay-at-home spouses or have an elderly relative who will need nursing home care.
NEWS
July 4, 2000 | MAURA DOLAN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Frank Sinatra Jr. was only 19 when he was kidnapped, held hostage and released after his famous father paid a $240,000 ransom. Now the entertainer is trying to prevent his kidnappers from making a much greater windfall from the story of the crime. Sinatra's success will depend on how the California Supreme Court, and possibly the U.S. Supreme Court, decides a constitutional challenge to the state's so-called "Son of Sam" law, named after the serial killer who terrorized New York in 1977.
NEWS
April 4, 2001 | JANET HOOK, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Vice President Dick Cheney cast his first tie-breaking vote in the Senate on Tuesday, rescuing President Bush's budget plan from a Democratic effort to scale back the administration's $1.6-trillion tax cut proposal in order to increase funding for a new Medicare prescription drug benefit. Cheney cast his vote during debate on a budget resolution that includes the outlines of Bush's fiscal policy, including his tax cut plan.
NEWS
June 1, 1998 | ROBERT L. JACKSON, TIMES STAFF WRITER
A veteran lawmaker calls the infraction DWB: driving while black. And this year, most members of the House sent a clear signal of concern about discriminatory traffic stops by police. But the bill that sailed through the lower chamber has run into trouble in the Senate. Because of the protests of police organizations, the bid to get the Justice Department to collect racial and ethnic statistics on traffic stops appears buried. Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.
NEWS
February 26, 2000 | JANET HOOK, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Senate Republicans were in a quandary: A powerful Senate committee had overwhelmingly approved a bill to crack down on teen smoking and raise cigarette taxes, moves attracting strong political support. But influential Republicans despised the measure. As GOP senators met over lunch one day to plot their course, it was a seminal moment for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who had worked hard to produce the bill and was laboring to rally his party behind it.