Nation IN BRIEF : D’Amato Deal on Whitewater Barred
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The Senate’s Democratic leader spurned a GOP offer to end the chamber’s Whitewater probe before the political conventions begin in August. Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) said the offer by New York Sen. Alfonse M. D’Amato, who heads the now-suspended Senate Whitewater Committee, “can’t be viewed as a serious proposal.” Democrats and Republicans have been in a bitter stalemate over extending the Senate inquiry, which began with hearings last July.
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