national/regional
Feds funded to
Friday evening
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Despite last-minute attempts by
Congress to keep federal funds
flowing, the White House told
hundreds of thousands of
federal workers to go home at
midday Thursday after
lawmakers failed to approve a
$500 billion catchall spending
bill needed to keep most of the
government solvent.
While the government was
partially shut down, President
Reagan and congressional
leaders traded partisan charges
of who was to blame for the
mess, which also left in doubt
whether Congress could meet
its target of adjourning for the
year by the end of the week.
The House voted Thursday
morning to approve an
emergency spending extension
to finance out-of-cash govern
ment agencies through 6 p.ra.
EDT Friday, and the Senate
followed suit early in the
evening.
The House took less than five
minutes to approve the short ex
tension of the deadline. Rep.
Steny Hoyer, D-Md., told his
colleagues, “We have already
interupted the government.
There is enough shame to go
around for all of us.”
Edwin Dale, spokesman for
the White House Office of
Management and the Budget,
said the president was expected
to sign the temporary money
measure. All furloughed
workers, he said, should report
for work at their regular time on
Friday.
Before acting on the tem
porary measure, the long-term
bill — the most expensive,
most-inclusive piece of legisla
tion ever to be considered bv
Congress — gained final Senate
approval on a voice vote after
more a week of debate
culminated by two around-the
clock Senate sessions.
Congressional negotiators,
meeting to work out a com
promise version of the spending
bills passed by the House and
Senate, indicated they would be
bargaining all night and into
Friday morning.
An estimated 500,000 non
essential workers were affected
by Thursday’s shutdown even
as Congress hurried through
legislation to make the govern
ment, which ran out of money
earlier this week, solvent again.
The White House Office of
Management and Budget went
ahead with its shutdown plans
even though the House had
passed the emergency funding
measure, with Senate action
pending. Workers were told at
10 a.m. to “secure their desks
and otherwide prepare for shut
down” within three hours.
As the 1 p.m. closing time tip
proached, a steady stream til
Agriculture Department
employees headed to the city's
subway, which began rush-hour
service early to handle the ex*
pected influx.
A typist at the Farmers 1 iome
Administration pulled a form
from her typewriter and put it
away, saying, "1 might as well
not start this because I'm not go
ing to get it finished."
“Isn’t this fun?" one
Agriculture worker asked
another as a party atmophere
pervaded the halls. “It'i
ridiculous," came the response
And at the Labor Department
spokesman Paul Williams said
of public information office
"It’s kind of lonely around
here."
Not affected by the shutdown
order were federal workers deal
ing with air traffic control,
border guards, medical institu
tion personnel, and prison and
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other law enforcement
personnel.
The Postal Service, which has
Its own budget, was not af
fected. Government processing
of Social Security and other
government checks would also
proceed.
Also unaffected were the
departments of Justice, Com
merce, State and Housing and
Urban Development, plus the
Veterans Administration, the
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration and the En
vironmental Protection Agency.
Appropriations bills for those
agencies had been passed
earlier.
Nonetheless, the administra
tion estimated that about two
thirds of the federal workforce
would be affected by the shut
down, the first in four years.
Halt white train
or pay police?
BREMERTON, Wash. (AP) —
Use of “white trains” to ship
nuclear weapons should be
halted, or local law enforcement
agencies that have to defend the
trains from protesters should be
compensated, say Washington
police chiefs and sheriffs.
Demonstrations in juiy aimed
at blocking the trains in Kitsap
County — home of the Trident
nuclear submarine base at
Bangor — and Vancouver,
Wash., cost local and state
agencies $30,000, Bellingham
Police Chief Terence Mangan
told the state's congressional
delegation in a letter.
Mangan is president of the
Washington Association of
Sheriffs and Police Chiefs.
Though federal authorities
have refused to disclose the
contents of the white-painted
trains, they are widely believed
to carry nuclear weapons from a
munitions factory at Amarillo,
Texas, to Bangor.
“As long as a ’white train' is
used and as long as this is an
emotional issue, these
demonstrations will continue,"
the letter said.
Kitsap County Sheriff Pat
Jones said Thursday that he
wasn’t informed that the letter
was being sent.
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