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To Jennifer Record Type: Record 10: JR: Tracey 5/1/97 To: cc: Subject: Late-term Daschle met with about 24 Senators in his office last night to talk through his alternative. Attached is updated materials including more info on mental health (Daschle let Members see the language but did not let them take copies). I understand they spent quite a bit of time talking about how they could possibly draw a narrow mental health exception and the talks were quite inconclusive. The sense was that there was general uneasiness -- even among some of the pro-choicers -- with the mental health language. Members are concerned that they are going to vunerable to chargers that the standard to not tight enough and conditions like mild depression could be covered. They're gonna keep talking next week. POTUS may get asked about this at the Senate retreat. Message Sent To: