1
 Hopes for quick enactment of pending deficit-reduction legislation faded 
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as efforts 
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to streamline the House version in advance of a House-Senate conference 
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broke down.
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 House leaders had hoped to follow the Senate's lead 
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by getting an agreement from House committee chairmen 
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under which they would drop items 
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that wouldn't reduce the fiscal 1990 budget deficit from the House-passed bill
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 before the negotiations with the Senate began.
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 But the effort became snagged on the question 
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of what would become of other issues,
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 ranging from cutting the capital-gains tax to child care to repeal of catastrophic-illness insurance.
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 Many members feel 
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there are important features of the House bill 
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that should be enacted, 
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Speaker Thomas Foley 
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(D., Wash.) 
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said.
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 If there is any support 
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for reducing the bill, 
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it is conditioned on their desire 
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to see them passed in another form. 
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 Now those items will be discussed in a House-Senate conference, 
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which could begin as soon as today, 
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with the expectation 
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that they could either be resolved there 
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or placed into other legislation.
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 You've got to give these chairmen the opportunity 
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to see 
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if they can work things out, 
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said House Budget Committee Chairman Leon Panetta 
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(D., Calif.).
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 This is a democratic process 
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-- you can't slam-dunk anything around here.
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 White House Budget Director Richard Darman has said 
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he would continue to press 
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to keep the capital-gains provision in the final version of the bill 
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unless the House drops many of its costly provisions.
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 Senate leaders had hoped to be able to send a compromise version of the measure to President Bush by the end of the week, 
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but Speaker Foley said 
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that wasn't likely.
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 Failure 
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to pass the bill 
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meant that $16.1 billion in across-the-board spending cuts took effect Monday under the Gramm-Rudman budget law.
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 The bill must be enacted 
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before the cuts can be restored.
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