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Clinton, GOP agree on budget
WASHINGTON — Politically burned by two government shutdowns, congressional Republicans embraced legislation yesterday to avoid a third. The White House said President Clinton would sign it as the year-long budget fires cooled on all fronts.
The Associated Press
After solving an impasse about abortion restrictions, the House moved toward passage of a measure that would keep dozens of federal agencies functioning through March 15, though at lower levels than 1995. The Senate planned to debate the legislation today, and the White House said Clinton would sign it.
"We're satisfied that a lot of give and-take has produced an agreement the president can live with," White House spokesman Mike McCurry said.
Lawmakers had faced tonight's deadline that if breached would see civil servants furled for an embarrassing third time since November.
After taking a drubbing in public-opinion polls for their confrontational tactics, Republicans no longer were vowing to halt government's most basic functions unless their demands for a balanced budget in seven years were met. Taking into account this fall's elections, both sides seemed to feel the best path, for now, was to settle immediate differences and save their most stubborn disputes for Medicare, Medicalaid and welfare un-til next year.
But all the em-bers from the budget infero were not dead.
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Despite an apparent truce on extending the debt limit and pressure from Wall Street to do so, the two sides fenced on how it would be accomplished.
"Since I gave the State of the Union address, there have been some encouraging things said by the congressional leaders," Clinton told mayors visiting the White House, continuing the positive tone he took in that speech. "But I would remind you that we still have some roadblocks in the way that I think need to be cleared away."
For the next seven weeks, the stopgap spending measure would
fi-nance many agencies whose 1996 budgets are incomplete, including the departments of Veterans Affairs, Interior and Labor and the Environmental Protection Agency
None of Clinton's major initiatives would be cut below 75 percent of last year's levels.
Most would receive less than they got in 1995, and 10 minor programs — such as money for the native Hawaiian and Alaska native cultural arts — would be eliminated.
"Nobody wants to close down the government," said House Appropriations Committee Chairman Bob Livingston, R-La., reflecting GOP leaders' new strategy of disawowing confrontation as a tool for pressing their budget ideology.
After that, the money could be dispersed, though at just 65 percent of last year's levels.
In a compromise between conservatives and abortion-rights lawmakers, the measure would block U.S. funds to international family planning programs, but only until July.
The program is supposed to spend $548 million during the next year and a half.
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