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Fulfilling a GOP “Contract With America” promise, the House followed the Senate in ap proving the measure, which marks a historic shift in the bal ance of power between the exec utive and legislative branches. Since the nation’s founding, the president has been forced to approve or reject legislation in its entirety. “The Republican Congress has done something that no pre vious Congress has been able to accomplish since the first line- item veto proposal was intro duced in the 1870s,” said House Government Reform and Over sight Committee Chairman William Clinger, R-Pa., who helped forge the House-Senate compromise plan. Opponents characterized it as a dangerous ceding to the execu tive branch of Congress’ power of the purse. “This is fundamen tally unwise and it manifests a line-item The Senate passed line-item veto legislation Wednesday that would allow the president to stop individual items without having to veto the entire bill and put at risk projects and programs he supports. Highlights of the legislation ■ The president could cancel funds appropriated by Congress for individual programs or projects. ■ He can also eliminate tax benefits targeted to groups of 100 or fewer beneficiaries. 89 He can also cut out spending on new entitlement programs and any additions to the food stamp program. ■ The bill has an eight-year lifetime, giving Congress a chance to reconsider it if the balance of power has tipped too much toward the executive branch. ■ Congress would have 30 days to decide which vetoed items it wants to restore; a two- thirds vote is needed to overturn a presidential veto of Congress’ attempt to restore deleted lunding. fundamental disrespect of our own duties,” Rep. David Skaggs, D-Colo., said. But constitutional considera tions that have blocked passage in the past were overcome by the demand for new tools to combat the federal deficit. Giving the president author ity to pencil out individual items from spending bills al lows him to kill low priority or pork-barrel projects. “The buck will finally stop at the president’s desk,” said Rep. Jim Bunning, R-Ky. “We are go ing to give him the opportunity,” he said, “to end the era of pork- barrel spending.” The bill also allows the jDresi- dent to cancel tax benefits tar geted to groups of 100 or fewer beneficiaries and eliminate spending for new entitlement programs that Congress might establish or additions to the food stamp program. Clinton, like previous presi dents a strong supporter of the line-item veto concept, said the bill would “ensure that our pub lic resources are put to the best possible uses during these times of tight budgets.” But the president wouldn’t be able to use this new power until Jan. 1, a result of an agreement between Clinton and his certain opponent in the presidential elections this fall, Senate Major ity Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan. In a telephone conversation last week, the two decided that the law should not go into effect un til the new year, so it wouldn’t become an issue during the po litical campaign. The House defeated, 256-159, an attempt to make it effective immediately. Dole, too, voiced strong sup port for the bill: “Line-item veto seems to be the one thing that all modern presidents agree on,” he said shortly before the Senate voted 69-31 to pass it Wednesday. “The president, regardless of par ty, should be able to eliminate un necessary pork-barrel projects from large appropriations bills.” The House approval of the line-item veto Thursday came on a procedural vote, 232-177, con nected to a package of measures attached to a bill to raise the federal debt ceiling. That vote, complicated by the fact that some lawmakers opposed the package but supported the line- item veto, separated the line- item veto from the package and allowed it to be sent indepen dently to the president. May Graduates Official Texas A&M Graduation Announcements on sale at the **• MSC Box Office 1st Floor of Rudder Tower Jan. 16 - Feb. 23, 1996 Now Offering Personalized as well as Traditional Announcements intormacion or to place an order. http://wwwmsc.tamu.edu/graduation Mon. - Th. 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Fri. 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. ON-CAMPUS INTERVIEWS APRIL 2nd ! Lifeguards Needed Sweetwater Pools, Inc. in Houston is looking for leadership-oriented individuals to run our pools this summer. Training will be offered- must have or willing to take Lifeguard Training, First Aid, and CPR courses. You will manage as well as lifeguard. This is a full-time summer job(40 hours per week/6 days per week). Salary range $800.00-$ 1,000.00 per month plus swimming lessons and bonus. Assistant Managers as well as Lifeguards are also needed. Call between the hours of 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m., Mon.-Fri. to set up an appointment for an interview. (713) 270-5946 Interviews will be held at Texas A&M April 2, 1996 at the Career Center, Rm. 209 John J. Koldus Bldg. 8:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. & I p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Settlement Continued from Page 1 we had lost,” Schaffer said. “We were able to get the University to agree that only 10 pigs would be out there, with 10 giving birth per year. We topped off at 1,000 animals, which we thought was a big reduc tion from the 1,600 to 2,000 they (had proposed).” Brushy Creek residents have opposed ASTREC because of concerns that it would lead to water cont amination, noise pollution and other problems in their community. Schaffer said that according to the agreement, the University will have to get a performance bond for $5 million to ensure A&M has the funding to main tain ASTREC. A citizens committee will be appointed, she said, to make sure the University is staying within the terms of the agreement and to keep relations amicable be tween Brushy Creek residents and the University. “We feel pretty good about it,” Schaffer said. “We would have liked to have gone to court with environ mental racism, but the judge might not have sided with us.” Texas one of seven states to sue tobacco companies AUSTIN (AP) — Texas on Thurs day became the largest state to sue the tobacco industry, seeking to re coup more than $4 billion spent on to bacco-related illness and to halt ad vertising it says targets children. “The day of reckoning is at hand,” State Attorney General Dan Morales said in announcing the lawsuit filed against the nation’s biggest tobacco companies in federal district court in Texarkana. The lawsuit — which follows legal action by six other states but is the first filed in federal court — marks the first governmental allegation that the tobacco industry has violated fed eral mail and wire fraud statutes, federal racketeering laws and federal conspiracy laws, according to Morales. It also alleges violations of state and federal antitrust laws and public nuisance laws. It addressed not only cigarettes but other tobacco products, including smokeless tobacco. The $4 billion sought by the state is the amount estimated Texas tax payers have paid in smoking-related Medicaid claims alone from 1980 through 1996. The figure includes state and federal money put into the health-care program for the poor. One company sued, Philip Morris U.S.A., said Morales’ legal theories “have no support under state or fed eral law.” MSC FILM SOCIETY PRESENTS... The best film Of 1995! V | - I'util \\ under, WHAI F.M/NIAV YORK . “★★★★ si! 1 A Triumph! Warm, witty and just plain wonderful!” Bob Mealy, SATELLITE NEWS NETWORK AM E RICAN Fri. & Sat., Mar 29 & 30 at 7 & 9:30pm Ck Admission $2.75 w/I.D. $3 w/out I.D. Persons with disabilities please call 847-8478 to inform us of jour special needs. We request notification 3 working days prior to the event to enable us to assist you to the best of our ability. Aggie Cinema Hotline: 847-8478 Rudder Box Office: 845-1234 All films are presented in the Rudder Theater Complex But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. For the wages of s in is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:22-23 rrection Week March 31 - April 4, 1996 Schedule of Events Sunday..——Free BBQ & Live Music The Grove, 5 pm - 9 pm Monday...————————————Grant Teaff, speaker Rudder Auditorium, 7:30 pm Tuesday.———————Rich Mullins Concert Rudder Auditorium, 7:30 pm $5/ students $7/non-students Wednesday...—.———David Smithers & Pam Moore Men - MSC 224, 8 pm Women - Rudder Theater, 8 pm Thursday...................—.—..........Bible Study and Prayer Men - MSC 224, 6:45 am Women - MSC 226, 6:45 am Crucifixion Scene Also come out to... Rudder Fountain, 12 pm BYX Island Party - March 30-4 pm - Polo Fields