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Article: Task Force ruling 'gratifies' Clinton. (injunction preventing the President's Task Force on National Health Care Reform from holding private meetings)
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- National Underwriter Life & Health-Financial Services Edition
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- March 15, 1993
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WASHINGTON - The Clinton administration claimed victory in a ruling by a federal judge that meetings of the President's Task Force on National Health Care Reform must be public when gathering information, but that its recommendations to the President are protected by the Constitution.
Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a preliminary injunction barring the task force from holding meetings until it is in compliance with the 1972 Federal Advisory Committee Act.
The president is "very gratified by the court's decision," George Stephanopoulos, the White House communications director, said at a briefing ...