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Friday, September 30,1977
University Daily Kansan
Senate into 10th day on gas bill
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd kept the Senate in its third straight night session yesterday in a futile effort to work out a compromise on natural gas legislation. He ordered the senators back for another try this morning.
Byrd recessed the Senate at 10:27 last night after he was unable to get two warring factions to agree to begin voting on major amendments to the bill.
Every proposal he made drew an objection from either those who want to deregulate gas prices or those wanting price controls.
Byrd finally gave up and asked the leaders of both sides to join him in his office in the morning to try to work out an agreement.
agree.
"I think I have made a good faith effort to try to arrange an understanding as to when we could vote," he said after repeated rebuffs.
TEMPERS GREW short as the Senate struggled to end the 10-day filibuster first started by opponents of deregulation.
opponent of derogation.
After nine days of silence, Sen. Edmund Muskie, D-Maine, rose to charge that senators opposed to deregulation of gas
prices were being "steamrolled" by the majority.
"I don't like the smell of it," Muskie shouted.
Mustie said he had long opposed filibuster "but I'm just as opposed to steamroller tactics as I am to dilatory tactics."
Muskie's ree was aroused by an effort to wipe out hundreds of amendments offered by the filibusterers by having them called up and ruled out of order one by one.
up one more. Patrick Moynihan, D- N, noted at one point that there were still 85 amd- 214 mL of vodka.
SENATE LEADERS had succeeded in getting opponents of deregulation suspended and temporarily terminated morning so that a compromise plan could be brought to the floor.
That plan would extend existing federal price regulation but also allow ceilings to be raised higher than President Jimmy Carter wants.
warns. The catch was that proponents of deregulation reserved the right to amend the compromise bill to restore deregulation provisions, and their opponents indicated
they would resume their filibuster if that occurred.
Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, a leader of the antidetergulation filbuster, told a reporter "all bats are off" on the day that the new poison is made to add derangement provisions.
After the Senate brought Democratic Leader Robert Byrd's compromise to the floor by voice vote, Sen. Russell Long, D-LA, took charge.
LONG'S TACTIC was to rob Metzentbuaen and his ally, Democrat James Aburezek of South Dakota, of the means to revive their filibuster by bringing up all the delaying amendments they had been keeping in place, disposing of them by quick once votes.
Abourezk tried to stall by demanding time-consuming roll call voken, but his tired face was obscured.
Long also ignored Abourezk's challenge to call up the central amendment providing for deregulation of new gas—the heart of the dispute.
"If the other guy wants to be a poor loser,
then I want to be a poor loser," Long said.
waving his arms in a Senate that sat silent except for some chuckles.
Earlier, when Byrd's compromise seemed as though it might carry the day, Abourezk and Metzenbaum said they would be able to stop the impasse if we are interested in ending the impasse."
but senators pushing for removal of all price controls on natural gas indicated even then they were not satisfied with the system by Byrd and Sen. Henry Jackson, D-Wash.
Assistant Senate Republican leader Ted Stevens of Alaska suggested the deregulation cases adopted the same deregulation cases used by opponents of deregulation since Sept. 19.
But Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Tex., a coauthor of the deregulation bill blocked by Abourekz and Metzenbaum, said, "I am not going to filibuster. I did not participate in the diary tactics before and I am not going to now."
And Sen. James Pearson, R-Kan., Bentens' co-author, also said he would allow the Byrd proposal to come to a vote even though he opposes it.
Carter scolds Senate for energy vote delay
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WASHINGTON (AP)—President Jimmy Carter, chiding the Senate for dismantling his energy program and delaying a final vote, warned yesterday that America's energy problems would become more severe.
While the Senate continued its battle over
"The American people are expecting the Congress to pass a national energy plan," Carter said in a news conference statement and told reporters to contribute as at his national television audience.
Abortion debate continues
WASHINGTON (UFI) - House and Senate negotiators held an angry two-hour debate yesterday on the conditions under which the government would pay for abortions for low-income women.
They failed to reach agreement but appeared to make more progress than in any of the other half-dozen sessions in which the team struggled over the issue since August.
They will meet again Monday.
The dispute is holding up a $20 billion appropriation to run the departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare and several lesser agencies during the fiscal year beginning tomorrow. It is the one section of the bill still in disagreement.
DURING THE STORMY session a compromise proposal slowly took shape. Neither side endorsed it, but both agreed to think it over.
Unless it is settled within about a week, 240,000 labor and HEW employees will begin getting, first, a pay cut, then no pay. Social Security, unemployment compensation, and major wage programs will continue to provide normally through their trust funds.
The proposal would allow federal funding of abortions under these conditions:
- When the life of the woman would be endangered if the fetus were carried to
- In cases of rape and incest that "daily reported to local legal authority."
- If the mother or fetus "would suffer serious, permanent health damage."
- The proposal also would permit "use of drugs or devices to prevent implantation of the fertilized ovum." That would include so-called morning after contraceptives and
Alabama wants highest penalty for bombings
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (UPI)—Deputy Attorney General George L. Beck said yesterday the state would seek the maximum punishment in two civil rights-era church bombing cases—including, if possible, the death penalty.
"We're going after the maximum punishment, whatever the law will allow," Beck said. He said he wasn't sure whether the death penalty could be applied.
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deregulation of natural gas prices, Carter reiterated his opposition to removing the price controls and said that no interest group or organization could be satisfied with every part of his plan.
Robert Chambliss, a 73-year-old former Ku Klux Klan member, was indicted Monday on four counts of murder in a 1963 bombing at Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham that claimed the lives of four young black girls.
J. B. Stoner, an avowed racist lawyer from Marietta, Ga., is under indictment for a 1958 Birmingham church bombing that caused no injuries.
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He said the Senate was under tremendous pressure from lobbyists and had its own reputation to protect in passing strong energy legislation.
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He said that Soviet President Leonid I.
PRESENT LAW, which expires tonight,
allows abortion funds only when necessary
and if there is a court order.
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Brezhnev had a standing invitation to visit the United States and that, in the rotation of U.S.-Soviet summits, it is the United States' turn to play host.
The Bert Lance case, on which Carter spoke excused his at news conference following Lance's resignation as budget director a year ago, was the subject of only one question.
The Free University is offering a large selection of alternative classes.
The President said he never knew in 1976 that the Justice Department was investigating Lance's bank overdraft problems. But he said it would happen in his decision to appoint Lance director of the Office of Management and Budget.
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