President Clinton said he did not like some provisions of the bill.
Public financing has been the most controversial provision of the bill.
The major provisions of the bill are these: *Legal immigration would be reduced by about a third, to 535,000 people a year.
Another provision of the bill would require a man to pay for health care if his wife became ill.
The provisions of the bill will be delayed from going into effect until December 2009.
However, this provision of the bill was removed before passage.
The major provisions of the bill would not be affected by the addition revealed tonight.
Is that provision of the bill a blow against crime?
Democrats like the provision of the bill that would add $7 billion to child care programs over the next five years.
The department also opposed other provisions of the bill, but it needed the spending authority.