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nce to children of Vietnam veterans who were born with spina bifida, as I mentioned earlier; and required t Those people’s incomes had been losing ground for twenty years, and they needed the help; moreover, we had to make lowe On the home front, I endorsed a bipartisan bill to provide Medicaid coverage to lower-income women for breast and cervical After being reasonably quiet for most of 1994, things had begun to go wrong at the end of November, when Serb warplanes attacked Croatian Muslims in western Bosnia.