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Progress in doubt ; Leadership at odds.(employee benefit regulation)

Business Insurance, November, 2000 by GEISEL, JERRY

WASHINGTON-Gridlock on employee benefit issues has been the norm on Capitol Hill for several months, with Republican and Democratic leadership barely speaking to one another. Regardless of which presidential candidate-Texas Gov. George W. Bush or Vice President Al Gore-ultimately wins the presidential election, that situation is unlikely to improve during the next congressional session, Washington experts say.

With the new president winning by just a hair and the new Congress almost evenly divided between the two parties, an easing of the intense partisanship that dominated the 106th Congress doesn't appear likely. ``I think what you have is guaranteed gridlock,'' said Helen Darling, a former Senate health care staffer and now a consultant in the...

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