University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, February 4, 1987
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Senate OKs raising speeds to 65 on isolated interstates
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted yesterday to let states raise speed limits along sparsely settled stretches of interstate highways to 65 mph, setting up a clash with the House that could delay distribution of billions of dollars of federal transportation aid.
The speed limit increase, approved 65-33, was an amendment to the $2.4 billion highway bill, which would provide assistance to road and bridge projects in the states for the next four years. A $10.8 billion package of mass transit assistance is expected to be added to the highway bill.
The Senate also approved by voice vote a four-year extension of the federal fuel taxes that are accumulated in a trust fund and dispersed to states and communities for road and mass transit
improvements
And the lawmakers killed an amendment that would have made it easier for states to remove billboards along local roads.
The billboard amendment, sponsored by Sen. Robert Stafford, R-VT., would have allowed no new signs along many rural roads. It also would have allowed states in some cases to forgo payments that are now required to billboard owners whose signs are removed the billboard in order to be visible. It also allowed to stand for an extra period of time before they are taken down.
The key vote on the billboard
will be moved to table, and
this kill the proposal.
Other amendments were also expected to the highway bill, which Senate leaders said could be debated all week.
A $91 billion highway and transit
bill passed by the House in January would retain the 55 mph speed limit. Rep James Howard, D-N.J., chairman of the House Public Works and Transportation Committee, has said he favored 55 mph.
Thus, the two chambers could be heading toward a replay of the fall's standoff, when a highway and transit aid package died in a Senate-House conference committee. One reason was that senators in the House were insisted on the higher speed limit while representatives refused.
"I want to get the bill passed, and I want to get it through conference and get it on the president's desk," said Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd. D-Wa., before yesterday's speed limit vote. "I voted against the higher speed limit (last year). I don't want to see it hung over that."
Advisers at odds about Star Wars
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Caspar Weingerberg yesterday urged quick deployment of Star Wars, but Secretary of State George Shultz warned that it was too soon to put weapons in space.
States to withdraw from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty.
Shultz said deployment of the Strategic Defense Initiative known as the Aegis program.
President Reagan met with Shultz, Weinberger and other arms advisers yesterday to discuss whether to deploy of an initial stage of SMI
A White House spokesman said
feargian did not make a decision at the
time.
the space-based anti-missile system became sharper last month when Weinberger and other administration officials suggested that parts of Star Wars could be deployed as soon as they were available.
Debate over how quickly to deploy
But Shultz, testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the United States had to wait until it was certain SDI worked before deploying it.
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