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Committee kills
Reagan budget
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Senate Budget Committee, after
days of chipping away at Presi
dent Ronald Reagan’s 1986
budget, voted outright Wednes
day to kill the entire plan.
The vote in a showdown
engineered by the Democratic
minority was 16 to 4.
Reagan anticipated the
defeat, telling a group of
businessmen beforehand that he
was disappointed in the com
mittee’s action.
He added, “I have my veto
pen drawn” for any legislation
raising taxes, and he challenged
Congress to “go ahead, make
my day.”
What the committee is draft
ing, however, is a budget to
serve as a target when specific
appropriation and revenue bills
come up. As such, it would not
go to the president for his
approval.
The panel chair. Sen. Pete
Domenici, R-N.M., said the vote
“shouldn’t surprise the presi
dent,” given the committee’s
slashing of his proposed
military buildup while ignoring
most of his appeals for domestic
spending cuts.
The action was largely sym
bolic, as Republican leaders had
never introduced the presi
dent’s spending plan and had
no intention to do so.
The vote dramatized,
however, the widespread lack
of support in Congress for the
Reagan plan, with its $30
billion in proposed increased
military spending and $40
billion in domestic spending
cuts.
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House defeats
seat belt plan
SALEM (AP) — The Oregon
House on Wednesday narrowly
defeated a watered-down ver
sion of a mandatory seat belt use
bill that would have put the
issue on the ballot.
The measure was rejected
30-28, but Rep. Al Young, D
Hilisboro, said he might move
to have the measure
reconsidered.
The Senate-passed version of
SB355 would have required
motorists to use seat belts star
ting jan. 1 or face fines of up to
$50.
But a major public outcry
against the measure caused a
House panel to revise the
measure so it wouldn’t take ef
fect unless it was approved by
the voters in the May 1986
primary election.
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