Action on Reform Bill Seen Unlikely by Year End

By Mark Pitsch

Washington

With the Senate struggling to complete a packed legislative agenda before lawmakers' scheduled adjournment this week, Administration sources and Congressional aides predicted that floor action on President Clinton's education-reform strategy would not occur until 1994.

"It's very, very unlikely that it's going to the floor before Thanksgiving,'' Michael Cohen, a counselor to Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley,...