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News briefs Jobless to get $3 billion in emergency aid WASHINGTON (KRT) - President Bush announced $3 billion in emer gency aid for unemployed workers Thursday as top budget leaders in Congress began defining how they in tend to spend up to $80 billion more to spur America’s stumbling economy. As the latest weekly filings for un employment relief skyrocketed to 528,000, up 71,000 over last week, Bush said he will give $3 billion to workers laid off since the Sept. 11 at tacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Bush also authorized an extra 13 weeks of unemployment insurance in hard-hit areas. On Capitol Hill, the leading law makers who draft budgets held a joint press conference to discuss how they plan to meet Bush’s call Wednesday for up to $75 billion in new economic stimulus. Top Republicans and Democrats on the House and Senate budget committees agreed that they would work to place limits on the stimulus package, saying it would throw fed eral finances into deficit for the first time since 1997. The Treasury sur plus is estimated at only $52 billion. To guard against plunging the Treasury deeper into debt for any longer than necessary, the top budget lawmakers agreed that any stimulus measures Congress adopts must last no longer than one year. If their re solve prevails, that would block con servatives who want to ram perma nent tax cuts through Congress as part ofthe stimulus package. With Capitol Hill tax cutters already clamoring to cut taxes on everything from corporate rates to capital gains, a test of wills between them and fiscal conservatives appears inevitable. “If challenged, we ought to be pre pared to stand strong,” said Sen. Pete Domenici of New Mexico, the rank ing Republican on the Senate Budget Committee. “There are some who are not going to want us doing this. ” Domenici made his comments flanked by Senate Budget Commit tee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D; House Budget Committee Chair man Jim Nussle, R-Iowa, and that panel’s ranking Democrat, Rep. John Spratt of South Carolina. The four said the government would have to spend at least $60 bil lion to give the flagging economy a boost. But they agreed that much of that spending should be paid back in future years as the economy improves. Thry declined as a group to offer recommendations on how the mon ey should be used. — Sumana Chatterjee and fames Kuhnhenn ©2001, Knight Ridder/Tribune information Services. ^ Halloween HQ's for w Authentic Costumes J jh Flight Suits Fireman Suits Cooks Outfits /% Soldier Uniforms w Nurses Uniforms Camouflage ijm Face Paint w Patches & Ensignes Toxicological Suits Jp Hard Hats Army Berets Florida man hospitalized with anthrax MIAMI (KRT) — A 63-year-old Palm Beach County, Fla., man has been hospitalized in critical con dition with anthrax, state health officials confirmed Thursday. State of Florida and federal in vestigators from the Centers for Disease Control are at the Colum bia JFK Medical Center in Lan tana, Fla., and are investigating, federal sources said. The patient was tentatively identified as Robert Stevens, though the spelling of his last name was unclear. Investigators said he had recently returned from dropping his son off at Duke University in Durham, N.C. At a hastily arranged news con ference, Florida Lt. Gov. Frank Brogan and Florida Department of Health Secretary John Ag wunobi said the man was first di agnosed with meningitis, but the Centers for Disease Control con firmed that it was anthrax Wednesday afternoon. Brogan said the man may have inhaled the deadly bacteria but added that the health officials be lieve it is an isolated case. The FBI has been alerted. “We’re going to stress a calm and reasoned approach to this particular event,” Brogan said. Anthrax is not contagious from one person to another, and in the rare occasions when it is spread to humans, it is usually done so by infected animals. The bacteria is most deadly when spread by air, making it one of the most feared methods of biological at tack. But such cases are rare. In the United States, about one case of anthrax has been con firmed each year over the last 10 years, according to a report by Dr. Arthur M. Friedlander, chief of the Bacteriology Division in the U.S. Army Medical Corps. The last case in Florida was in 1974, Brogan said. In 1979 in Sverdlovsk, Russia, anthrax spores aroidentally re leased from a military research fa cility reportedly killed dozens of people. At Columbia JFK Medical Cen ter in Lantana, Fla., hospital offi cials declined to comment, and said information would be re leased later in the day Thursday. A security guard was posted at the entrance to the critical care unit on the hospital’s second floor. — Manny Garcia and David Kidwell (c) 2001, The Miami Herald. 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