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THE BATTALION Page 11
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1980
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' 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
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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.
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