NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, November 16, 1983 Page 12
Baker promises debt increase
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Amid warnings that the government is running out of cash, Senate Republican leader Howard Baker promised President Reagan yesterday that Congress will not allow any urgent increase in the national debt.
"We're going to find a way to pass the debt limit increase, but for the lire of me I don't know how yet. We still don't have the votes," Baker said after a meeting between Reagan and the GOP congressional leadership.
With the Senate planning to adjourn Friday for the year, Baker told Reagan: "We ain't going out until we pass this. And we may be here until measure." Failure to pass the measure he would be a little short of disastrous."
While Reagan set forth a list of other objectives, ranging from confirmation of William Clark as interior secretary to the unlikely approval of tuition tax credits. White House officials say debt-limit increase is needed to ease "a chaotic situation in the country's financial system."
THE DEBT LIMIT legislation, which would let the government keep borrowing money to pay its bills, emerged as the top priority of what legislative leaders hope to be the final days of the 1983 session.
The bill in question would raise the debt limit from $1.389 trillion to $1.61 trillion. Conservative Republican senators hoping to use it as a way to cut deficits with more domestic spending cuts are asking its members, the foddy oldook of Baker and Speakes was designed to put pressure on them.
THE WHITE HOUSE, however,
the white house is a definite must be handled by other men, most of whom are African-American.
"The government is now being forced to proceed on a day-to-day basis as to whether it can continue to pay its bills," Speaks said, By Dec. 1, he said, "we'll probably not be able to pay all bills."
just $10.6 billion shy of the current debt limit as of Nov. 10 and a $12 billion interest payment due today, Speakes said. "We're at the end of the rope."
'We're going to find a way to pass the debtlimit increase, but for the life of me I don't know how yet. We still don't have the votes.'
—Howard Baker
Senate majority leader
In the event the current debt limit is touched, Spokeses said the government has rejected a deal.
banks would refuse to honor. He said Attorney General William French Smith concluded that the president lacks the power to select which bills are to be paid, meaning any program — ranging from paychecks to federal workers to Social Security benefits — could be affected.
“It’s impossible to say who would not be paid in the event of default,” he said.
OVERALL, REAGAN acknowledged that he had given the leadership an ambition to win, but contended that "all these things are doable."
Speakes, who briefed reporters on the meeting, said Reagan asked the leaders to push for approval of the Clark nomination, an increase in the U.S. quota to the International Monetary Fund, his tuition tax credit proposal and a Defense Department conference report.
The White House also was working with the congressional leadership to determine the status of U.S. troops in Vietnam-era War Powers. Resolution
Baker conceded the Clark nomination is "in some trouble" because of a side dispute over a resolution that would require the new interior secretary to ensure that the department's staff are required to serve Congress and take steps "to regain general public support and confidence" lost under James Watt.
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Nicaragua's civil defense authorities said yesterday that they were digging combat trenches and bomb shelters around Managua for fear of an imminent Grenada-style invasion by U.S.led forces.
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