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Thursday
Mauro urges voters to approve Proposition
□ The measure would
provide low interest
loans to veterans to buy
homes and make home
repairs.
By Wes Swift
The Battalion
Texas Land Commissioner
Garry Mauro urged Texas voters
to approve a Texas constitution
al amendment that would pro
vide $500 million for veteran’s
home loans.
Proposition 5 would grant the
Texas Veterans Land Board the
power to issue $500 million in
tax-exempt, general obligation
bonds that would be used to sup
port the Texas Veteran Home
Loan Program.
The program provides low in
terest loans to qualified veterans
to buy homes and make home
improvements.
Flanked by veterans, real es
tate representatives and mem
bers of the Texas A&M Corps of
Cadets, Mauro, head of the
TVLB, said the money is neces
sary to replenish the funds de
pleted over the last two years.
Mauro said the measure has
garnered support across the state.
“This is an easy sell,” he said.
“This amendment passed with
out a single dissenting vote.”
Veterans have a positive im
pact on the community, both
socially and economically,
Mauro said.
“Where a lot of cities are bat
tling crime, gangs and violence,
and small towns are trying to
preserve tradition,” he said, “vet
erans help the community.”
IHoyd Wells, representing
Brazos Valley veterans, said the
program was worthwhile be
cause not only did it provide vi
tal money to veterans, but it also
did not cost the taxpayers.
“I beg and plead with you to
vote for this,” Wells said. “This
does not cost taxpayers a dime.”
A report from Mauro’s office
said the VLB has provided veter
ans with $354 million in home
loans over the last 12 months.
Since the program was estab
lished in 1946, more than 140,000
veterans have received loans for
an estimated $2.4 billion.
Mauro said he supports the
bill because it is something that
veterans deserve.
“We have a sign above the
door of the Veterans Land Board
that says, ‘We don’t do veterans
a favor; we repay them one,”’ he
F
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Stew Milne,lull
Garry Mauro speaks on behalf of Propositions 5 and 14,1):
which benefit Texas veterans.
said. “This has been a Texas tra
dition since 1836.”
Mauro also spoke on behalf of
Proposition 14, which would al
low raising the limits oil
valorem tax exemption!
erty owned by disabled v*
or their surviving families
House committee approves Medicare overha
W
□ The legislation would slow the
growth of the program from 10
percent to roughly 6.4 percent.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Over vociferous
Democratic opposition, House Republicans
muscled through committee on Wednesday
legislation that would squeeze $270 billion
from Medicare over seven years while ex
panding health care choices for the elderly.
The vote in the House Ways and Means
Committee was 22-14, with all GOP mem
bers of the panel embracing the bill and all
Democrats opposed.
Action in a second committee was briefly
interrupted by a demonstration staged by el
derly activists of a labor-backed organiza
tion, an incident that underscored the pas
sions stirred by the legislation.
House Speaker Newt Gingrich is expected
to bring the measure to a vote in the full
House next week. A similar measure is
pending in the Senate. President Clinton has
threatened a veto.
Capping a contentious three-day debate
in the Ways and Means Committee that he
chairs, Rep. Bill Archer of Texas said Repub
licans had “kept our word” and devised a
plan that assures Medicare’s solvency for
current senior citizens and “for those who
will become senior citizens.”
The measure would slow the growth of
the giant health program from an estimated
10 percent a year to roughly 6.4 percent.
Most of the savings would come from curtail
ing planned increases in fees for doctors and
hospitals, although seniors would pay higher
premiums, as well, with the wealthy paying
much more.
At the same time, the legislation,iti
under Gingrich’s personal direction,»i
senior citizens choose alternatives to::
rent fee-for-service Medicare, such ask
maintenance organizations. Senioroti
wouldn’t get breaks on their premini
joining HMOs or other managed-carep
but they might get better benefits,sit
prescription drugs and eyeglasses.
Citing a report by Medicare’s trustees
publicans say the measure is necessi
stave off bankruptcy for a Medicare trust
The $270 billion in seven-yearss
also was dictated by the balanced^
blueprint congressional Republicansp
earlier in the year. Democrats charge
peatedly that the figure was roughly
times the size necessary to guare
Medicare’s financial stability.
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