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‘Spending bias’ in Congress
by Lezlee Hinson
Battalion Reporter
U.S. Rep. Phil Gramm told a
group of public school educa
tors Friday that government
spending continues to be a ma
jor problem because of the deci
sion-making process in the leg
islature.
Gramm told about 200 edu
cators attending the Conference
on Education in Free Enterprise
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that the decision-making pro
cess in Congress results in a pro
spending bias.
The group that will benefit
from any given measure is well-
organized and pressures its con
gressman to vote in favor of the
bill, Gramm said.
On the other hand, the aver
age taxpayer, who will ultimate
ly pay for the measure, doesn’t
even know a vote is being taken.
The only way to minimize the
influence of special interest
groups, Gramm said, is to place
binding constraints on govern
ment spending. If a balanced
budget were required, many
programs receiving federal
funding would have to compete
with each other for the available
funds.
This would mean funds
would be distributed on the basis
of merit rather than according
to who has the most influential
lobby, Gramm said.
Gramms’ wife, Dr. Wendy
Gramm, a chief economist for
the Federal Trade Commission,
also addressed the conference
and explained the complexity of
the decision-making process
within the bureaucracy.
The FTC is one of about 20
independent regulatory agen
cies, Dr. Gramm said, and is re
sponsible for maintaining com
petition in the marketplace and
protecting the consumer.
The FTC is subject to a great
deal of pressure from a number
of sources, Dr. Gramm said. All
decisions are made by the FTC
commission, which consists of
five members appointed by the
president for seven-year terms.
When considering an issue,
the commission examines all evi
dence compiled by the attorneys
and economists employed by the
FTC.
It tries to determine if the
firm in question has violated the
law, if the proposed action
makes economic sense, if the ac
tion will benefit the consumer
and if the benefits will exceed
the costs.
The FTC tries to ignore the
outside pressures and judge
each individual case on its merit,
Dr. Gramm said. But this isn’t
always easy, and this is why
changes within the bureaucracy
take so long.
Congressman Phil Gramm spoke to a group of
about 200 educators Friday afternoon in Rudder
at the 6th Annual Conference on Education in
Free Enterprise. Gramm was awarded i
Distinguished Service Award from the American
Academy of Who’s Who in Small Business.
Library, snacks don’t mix
by Donn Friedman
Battalion Reporter
Sterling C. Evans Library offi
cials say they want out of the
vending machine business be
cause students continue to
smuggle snacks into the book
section of the library.
The officials say the smug
gled snacks create problems
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with littering and insects. But,
the business services depart
ment which is in charge of the
machines says no immediate ac
tion is planned.
Library officials want to re
move the vending machines
from the second floor lounge,
said Dr. Irene Hoadley, director
of the library.
“If we could keep the food in
the lounge, then we wouldn’t ob
ject to it,” she said. “But people
carry their Cokes and candy out
of the lounge. This attracts bugs.
And bugs and books don’t get
along too well.”
The library requested that the
Office of Business Services re
move the machines, w hich con
tain soft drinks, candy, coffee
and cigarettes, but the machines
remain.
“At this time there are no
plans for removing the
machines,” said Jerry Smith,
associate director of business
services. “Removing the vend
ing machines would be a disser
vice to the library patrons.”
As long as the machines re
main, the library requested that
a monitor be hired to prevent
people from taking their snacks
out of the lounge, Hoadley said.
Since last fall, the library has
had a student worker who serves
as a monitor to check forln
and drinks outside the loui
and for excessive noise leva
the building.
Library officials saythem
tor has been somewhat efftti
in fighting the transit offt
from the lounge into thers
the library, but the problem!
exists.
Evidence of the problems
hard to spot. Wrappersforls
items such as candy batsi
snack chips were scatta
around the study areas)
shelves Wednesday. Sevetalt
dents openly sipped softdtii
as they studied.
Carol Ann Ross, a seii
animal science major, said
of ten eats snacks while ski
dies in the library.
“Even though they ask
to take food out of the lornift
do sometimes take stuffomi
the library,” Rosssaid.itlii
lot of people take foodoutof
lounge. If they issued an uliii
turn maybe people wouldsij
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the situation.
“What is needed,” Smiibii
“is cooperation of the studi
who use the lounge area toll
the food in the designated)®
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HARLINGEN — Psychiatrist
Richard Bohannon may deal
with crazy people all day, but he
says he keeps his own sanity by
Hying an airplane over desolate
miles of South Texas ranchland.
Bohannon manages to com
bine the two things he loves most
— psychiatry and flying — by
flying to see patients in the re
mote towns between San Anto
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ican border.
“I’d rather fly than do almost
anything,” he said. “It’s not as
good as sex, but it lasts longer.
It’s an escape, and it keeps me
from going insane.”
Bohannon is clinical director
of the Rio Grande Mental
Health-Mental Retardation cen
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located at the airport. He flies
the 30 miles from his McAllen
home each morning, spends a
few hours at the clinic then
points his twin-engine Azttt
Falfurrias, Freer, Alice,Com
cion or Laredo.
Except in Laredo, Bohap
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make him richer, but Bote®
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than sitting in a plush offe
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United Press International
With the Space Shuttle a
routine operation, the next ven
ture may be something called
the Sortie Vehicle, a compact
space plane that kicks free and
fires its engines from the back of
a rather unconventional Boeing
747.
If Boeing Aerospace desig
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Force, Science Digest reports,
these short-hop rocket planes
could be a reality by 1988, since
the ship could be launched with
existing and proven aeronautic
al equipment.
The Sorite Vehicle would be
carried aloft on the back of a
Boeing 747 supplemented by a
specially fitted space shuttle
main engine mounted in the
back. That would be needed to
carry the craft to a 37,500-foot
altitude and a 45 degree flight
angle.
At this point, the SortieVd
cle would break away and
up, carrying on its undent
mammouth fuel tank
feed its nine ravenous <
During flight—andaftff
tisoning the fuel tank—the-
tie Vehicle will be able to»
glide” in and out of the up?
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would not be fixed in
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A( this point the Sordeid
cle is no sure thing. But Boe
engineer James Jenkins is he?
ful and says, “People have
ways dreamed of a space pl»
you could just hop intoai
around the world.”