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Washington THE BATTALION Page 11 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1980 Congress works overtime Government paychecks stop without bill re « she 01 M a ! even ; ecreatjo, -of imp >nd “p allow t ' of the ^ le ti(£ United Press International ' each|w W ASHIN G TON — The House and ot, |nd Senate worked through a dead- o in a|_pe early Wednesday to pass an he said Emergency funding bill that would he said permit the government to pay its • have) workers during the fiscal year that Began at midnight. twasTej The House overwhelmingly • ends ®Pproved the stop-gap legislation by she sa 1292-100 vote an hour past midnight itiomli sen t it on to the Senate for approval. 3 longerffiput a possible filibuster in the md wh Se ,ia te threatened more delays, lysicj] ^ Although g° vernm ent tech nically had run out of money at mid- life sli because Congress had failed to on p S j appiove permanent funding bills for ■ebusiness year, most government operations were expected to con- dnue while Congress and the presi- fdent acted on the emergency mea- President Carter said Tuesday night at a Democratic National Com mittee fundraiser, “Unless the con tinuing resolution passes this even ing, the government comes to a screeching halt and all salaries stop. ” He stressed, “We’ve got to have this bill.” Because Congress delayed passing the necessary spending bills earlier this session, it was forced to draw up an emergency bill to keep the gov ernment functioning during the new fiscal year until permanent legisla tion can be enacted in a post-election session. The bill got bogged down in a de bate over federal abortion funds, an argument Congress has fought for the past 10 years. Shortly before midnight the con ference members finally agreed to continue current abortion guidelines that allow victims of rape and incest. in addition to those women whose lives are at stake, to receive federal financial assistance. Individual states would be allowed to set their own minimum guidelines for abortion funding. The House, which had wanted to drop assistance for rape and incest victims, agreed to the compromise if the victims reported the crimes within 48 hours compared to the cur rent 60-day requirement. Unhappy about the House’s hard line position. Sen. Ted Stevens, R- Alaska, promptly threatened to block Senate passage of the bill. “I didn’t come to the Senate to be bos sed by the House,” he said. The Senate had hoped to adjourn Wednesday and the House on today to allow members to campaign for re-election. A Justice Department opinion handed down earlier this year for bids government employees of an agency that has run out of funds to report to work unless their jobs in volve the protection of life or proper ty or if they are needed to wind down the agency’s operations. Under the guise of the “winding down” loophole, the Office of Man- agment and Budget urged federal employees to report to work Wednesday regardless of congres sional action on the emergency funding. Social Security checks, funded by a trust fund exempt from the con gressional appropriations process, have already been mailed out for October, so there is no danger such benefits will be delayed. GRAD STUDENT HAPPY HOUR FRIDAY OCT. 3, 5 PM QUONSET HUT B FREE BEER, SNACKS to, Graduate Student Council mburge:| aburger ■s promi a consi miobile expands farmers’crop insurance ( i, , i : ■ United Press International U t J s 1 WASHINGTON — As President ! l l ; Carter signed into law a bill to ex pand federal crop insurance, Agri culture Secretary Bob Bergland c ompa announced the program would be lutt ret eX p an( led into 250 counties a year during the next five years. I s0 act#One problem with the existing of ora crop insurance program is that after theca: 42 years it is available in only about istridi half 0 f the nation’s counties because ^^<)f slow expansion. ***^|Carter signed the bill on Tuesday, culminating three years of negotia tions to get the bill through Con gress. Bergland announced a “systematic expansion program at the rate of an (j additional 250 counties a year for the l^xt five years in order to permit crapid hut orderly extension of insur- 1 ance coverage to farmers.” The program eventually will cover T, O all major crops, all risks and all coun- ( - ties. ^ In 1982, it will replace the federal disaster program, which in essence gives farmers insurance with no pre miums, but is limited to feed grains, wheat, cotton and rice. In a statement, Bergland said, “I |hjave long advocated a sound, actua- plly based insurance program as eferable to the many ad hoc prog- ims now assisting our farm pro- cers.’’ He said the “programs deliver too little money to too few farmers and ifc§ually too late to be of maximum bienefit.” I For 1981, farmers will have to pay Mil federal crop insurance premiums ifthey elect to continue to be eligible for disaster payments, Bergland said. i|ln letters to be sent out shortly after planting of 1981 crops, farmers will be told about the alternative choice of federal crop insurance. Wider which they will receive a fed eral subsidy of 30 percent of pre miums for coverage up to 65 percent : crop yield. I J Farmers may elect to have federal |}l insurance coverage of 50 percent, 65 OfiS ^ rcen * or ^ percent of average art of the long negotiation that ceded enactment of the new law olved meeting objections of pri- e insurers. armers will be able to buy federal p insurance from government nts or private firms and will be He to buy part of their insurance feom the government and part from private companies. ak I iPrivate companies traditionally ind lifer fire and hail insurance. Under law, the federal government uld be authorized to reinsure pri- gytte 1 vate insurance if private companies decided to offer all-risk crop insur ance. Some opponents of the expanded program said it would be a mistake to when it was under the cloud of a expand the power and authority of recent sex and personnel scandal, the Federal Crop Insurance Corp., The Agriculture Department has y The Texas A&M Chemistry Club is selling the 60th edition of the CRC HANDBOOK through Friday, oct. 3 $ 21 (inch sales tax) ORDERS taken at these locations: The LRC (basement of Heldenfels) 9-11 a.m. Dr. Hogg’s Office, Rm. 332 in the Chemistry Bldg. 8 a.m.-4 p.m. recommended firing four top offi cials, who were accused of sending out-of-favor employees to a Kansas City, Mo., office with nothing to do and of having sex with female em ployees. HAPPY COTTAGE GIFT SHOPPE ^Specializing in Music Boxes ^Selected Imported Jewelry ’‘‘German, Austrian & Swiss Gifts ^Decorative Accessories 809 E. 29th Bryan 3 Blks. E. of City Nat'l Bank 822-9393 Political Forum presents Lt. 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