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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
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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.
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are committed to action tk
on some overhaul of the
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contend there may not be
time this session.
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before Congress in the
months include an
the Voting Rights Act,
the administration’snew]
tion proposals, the
MX missile, extension
Clean Air Act and a farm
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