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Clinton axes military projects
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Clinton brandished his veto
pen Monday and struck 38 pro
jects from next year’s military con
struction spending bill, including
three Texas projects totaling $22.5
million.
Using his line-item veto powers
for only the second time, the presi
dent pared $287 million worth of
projects from the $9.2 billion mili
tary construction package sent to
him by Congress.
“The use of the line-item veto
saves taxpayers nearly $290 million
and makes clear the old rules have
in fact changed,’’ Clinton declared
in an Oval Office ceremony.
The biggest Texas hit is a $ 10 mil
lion B-l squadron maintenance
unit at Dyess Air Force Base in Abi
lene. “Without this project,
squadrons at Dyess AFB will be able
to continue to operate using exist
ing facilities,” the White House said.
An angered Rep. Charles Sten-
holm, D-Stamford, said the White
House made a serious mistake in
targeting Dyess.
“I think it’s going to end up be
ing rather embarassing to them
when it’s over,” said Stenholm,
who was notified of the veto Mon
day morning.
Dyess is due to receive a new B-
1 bomber squadron in 2000, Sten
holm noted. Now, with Clinton’s
veto and under current Air Force
plans, the new squadron won’t have
a maintenance unit until 2002.
Clinton also scratched a $7.7
million project at Fort Bliss in El
Paso. The money was earmarked for
the second phase of a relocation of
an ammunition supply point from
the main post to McGregor Range.
And, he eliminated $4.8 million
for an aircraft corrosion control fa
cility at Laughlin AFB in Del Rio.
Stenholm wasn’t the only un
happy Texan.
“The president’s suggestion that
the three Texas programs he has ve
toed are unwanted by the Pentagon,
unnecessary or do not contribute to
our national defense in the coming
year is wrong,” said Sen. Kay Bailey
Hutchison, R-Texas, a member of
the appropriations panel that craft
ed the bill.
The three projects “have been
identified as essential in the mili
tary’s five-year plan,” she added.
Laughlin’s representative, Repub
lican Henry Bonilla of San Antonio,
said: “I hope the president will be as
eager to cut wasteful bureaucracy as
he is about needed safety improve
ments for our military.”
Congress can override the line-
item vetoes but would require two-
thirds majorities in both chambers
to do so.
The military construction pack
age still contains $110 million in
spending for Texas projects, mostly
to improve housing for military per
sonnel and their families.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Space shuttle At
lantis returned to Earth on Monday, bringing home
American astronaut Michael Foale after a tumultuous
4 1/2 months aboard Mir.
Atlantis swooped through a hazy sky and landed at
Kennedy Space Center just before 6 p.m., one day late.
Thick clouds had prevented Atlantis from landing
Sunday and kept Foale in orbit for a 145th day. NASA
fretted over the clouds and wind throughout the after
noon Monday before finally giving the seven-member
crew the go-ahead to land.
As soon as Atlantis rolled to a safe stop, Mission Con
trol announced: “Welcome home. Excellent job.”
Rhonda Foale gathered near the runway with her two
children, ages 3 and 5, and about 400 other well-wishers.
She waited cheerfully, as she has since May when her hus
band rocketed away to Russia’s aging space station.
“I’ve had to be patient for so long that it didn’t flus
ter me at all when they said it was going to be a day late,”
she said earlier Monday.
Foale, a 40-year-old British-born astrophysicist,
moved from the battered Mir into Atlantis on Sept. 28,
one day after the shuttle arrived with his replace
ment, a new computer, patches for holes punched in
the hull by a colliding cargo ship, and other urgently
needed supplies.
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