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Clinton's State of the Union proposal to semi-privatize Social Security may be getting most of the press, but his plan to penalize states with the loss of federal education dollars if they fail to enforce strict academic standards was by far the most interesting policy initiative unveiled in his Tuesday speech.
One plausible reason is that the differences are the result of how states solicit returns, monitor compliance, and penalize failure to file.
In 1995, he and congressional Democrats defeated a House Republican bill to penalize plaintiffs for frivolous lawsuits and to impose "loser pays" rules.
Mandatory standards enlarge government power to penalize makers who don't abide by the rules and also give U.S.
The suit aims 1) to penalize the industry for concealing the risks of cigarettes and 2) to recover billions of tax dollars spent on smoking-related health care.