White House Tries to Defuse Push for Steel Quotas.

Reports June 21, 1999 efforts of the Clinton Administration to convince Congress that it could protect the jobs of United States steelworkers with less drastic measures than those contained in a bill that would restrict steel imports. Details of actions announced by Commerce Secretary William M. Daley; House voting on the bill; Political implications for Vice President Al Gore of a threatened veto by President Bill Clinton; Global trade treaties that would be violated by the bill.