After attacks, Congress tables benefits bills

Employee Benefit News, November, 2001 by Karen Lee

In the wake of the bloodiest attacks ever perpetrated on the United States, both parties in both houses of Congress put aside until next year much of the legislation that, before Sept. 11, seemed so crucial to the business world.

Although President George W. Bush and congressional leaders vowed to continue with business as usual, military and antiterrorist appropriation bills, as well as attempted economic bailouts, clogged the legislative calendar and, with a few exceptions, forced out a number of bills that were previously cruising toward passage.

A few of the bills were deemed too controversial at a time when the party politics that previously characterized Capitol Hill actions appeared insensitive and anachronistic to a country that was begging for unity among...

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