The current broad provisions that restrict free speech would be eliminated.

The Clinton health care plan includes three broad provisions that are likely to be special boons for them.

"This is a much broader provision than its being made out to be," Mr. Kies said.

But the courts have interpreted a broad but little-noticed provision of the law to limit state authority over health benefits as well.

Nevertheless, some reformers are now saying that they want to return to the original, broader provisions.

The House responded and included the new and broader provisions in legislation that passed, 389 to 24, in October 1981.

Many recent contracts include broad provisions for electronic rights, publishers say, but few mention the possibility of selling pieces for mixing and matching.

Another broad provision of the law is that it makes it mandatory for commercial advertisements and public announcements to be given in French.

But the broader provisions of the plan are still caught up in the larger politics of the energy bill.

There was also strong support (59 percent) for broader provisions (pension, health, leave and survivor benefits) that weren't enacted until more than four years later.