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4 Page 8 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1981 National Reagan stirs laughter with strip-mining joke United Press International NEW YORK — President Reagan, while presenting a check for the Westway highway project to Mayor Edward Koch in New York, explained why In terior Secretary James Watt wasn’t there. “He’s working on a lease for strip-mining for the Rose Gar den The remark, which sparked a roar of laughter from the audi ence at Gracie Mansion, was a reference to heavy criticism of Watt for his support of various mining and oil-leasing projects in the country’s wilderness Spending and taxes top priority Congress faces heavy workloai 3707 E. 29TH, (TOWN & coumRv , CENTER I PIPES SNUFF sputons PIPE RACKS ROLLING PAPER CIGARS IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC LIGHTERS/FLUID IMPORTED CIGARETTES CUSTOM BLENDED TOBACCO CANDLES THAT KILL TOBACCO ODOh M O. 3 H O. * United Press International WASHINGTON — Summer vacation ended Tuesday for Con gress, too, and members return ing to their desks today will find an assignment schedule that may keep them busy until Christmas. The single-minded devotion to cutting spending and taxes that occupied the administration and Congress during President Reagan’s first seven months in office resulted in a dearth of action on almost everything else. Now, Congress must pass 13 appropriations bills that will set the level of actual spending in the fiscal year starting Oct. 1. Although the main budget bat tle seemed to be over with adop tion of stringent spending ceilings earlier this year, administration concern that the cuts might not be enough could result in battles over additional reductions as each of the money bills reaches Senate and House debate. Although the specifics are not yet clear, some cuts are due to hit the military, a move certain to en rage congressional hawks who feel a need to beef up the armed ser vices. Two of the most visible Senate issues will involve personalities. Reagan’s first Supreme Court nominee, Sandra O’Connor, appears before the Senate Judici ary Committee later this week, and Sen. Harrison Williams, D- N.J., faces possible expulsion if an appeals court upholds his Abscam conviction. The biggest controversy, and potentially the administration’s first setback in Congress, will be over the proposed sale of A WAGS radar planes to Saudi Arabia. The sale is opposed by Israel and its corps of supporters in both houses. It would take a majority vote in both the House and Senate by Oct. 30 to ban the sale. Domestic issues, lost in the glare of budget and tax fireworks earlier this year, are expected to appear — noisily — this fall. The Senate will find itself im mediately immersed in a filibuster over school busing that was under way for weeks before the August recess. A new attempt to cut off the talkathon is scheduled. Three previous attempts failed. Led by Sen. Lowell Weicker, R-Conn., the filibuster has block ed action on measures that would prevent the courts from ordering busing of pupils more than 10 miles and 30 minutes roundtrip from their homes and would pre vent the government from filing suits to require more busing. Abortion, another politically ex plosive issue that could detonate around the O’Connor nomination, could further tie up Congress if action is sought on a bill to define life as beginning at conception, or enactment of a constitutional amendment, or on provisions in appropriations bills banning gov ernment-paid abortions. Congressional leaders already have dropped ding the first session in Oc and now are shooting!) November. But even could prove too Optimist- Congress could be in sessioi again, on Christmas Eve. Leading Republicans® are committed to action tk on some overhaul of the keep it solvent. But Dei contend there may not be time this session. 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