The Dole bill includes provisions to auction unused radio frequencies, which he said would raise enough money to pay for the additional benefits.

Mr. Bush said today that he wanted the Dole bill.

That is fortunate because the Dole bill would have made the welfare system, with all its flaws, markedly worse.

The President needs to designate provisions in the Dole bill that will guarantee a veto.

The Dole bill cynically builds in more than 60 steps that the cost-benefit analysis must surmount.

Under the Dole bill, Washington would turn over a fixed amount of money, called a block grant, to states for them to spend on the poor.

"Child care is not guaranteed under the Republican plan," the Administration says in its analysis of the Dole bill.

But this outline makes it clear that the Dole bill will not guarantee universal coverage.

The bill that we've been for for some time, the Dole bill, does just exactly that.

But we cannot retreat from engagement, and that will be the net effect of the Dole bill.