CAPITOL HILL WRAP-UP.In their first weekend session of 1997, the House and Senate tidied up lingering business large and small in hopes of adjourning for the year tonight. Congressional action Saturday included: House Voted 352-64 to revive 38 military construction projects across the country that Clinton killed by line-item veto line-i·tem veto n. Authority, as of a government executive, to reject provisions of a bill individually. Also called item veto. Oct. 6. Lawmakers gave him that power only last year, but now that he's used it against dozens of home-state projects, many say he's wielded it unfairly. Passed by voice vote the Reading Excellence Act, which authorizes $260 million over three years to help states with programs that help teachers learn how to teach reading, assists parents in learning how to read and promotes tutoring programs for young children. Urged the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Noun 1. Bureau of Engraving and Printing - the agency of the Treasury Department that produces currency Department of the Treasury, Treasury Department, United States Treasury, Treasury - the federal department that collects revenue and administers federal to put tactile tactile /tac·tile/ (tak´til) pertaining to touch. tac·tile adj. 1. Perceptible to the sense of touch; tangible. 2. Used for feeling. 3. features on new currency to aid the blind. Increased penalties for acts of vandalism or theft at national veterans cemeteries. Passed, 291-125, legislation to authorize To empower another with the legal right to perform an action. The Constitution authorizes Congress to regulate interstate commerce. authorize v. to officially empower someone to act. (See: authority) agricultural research and education programs through 2002. Differences must be worked out with a Senate version. Halted scheduled debate on four other bills and quit for the day after Democrats became angered by the GOP leadership's refusal to allow more debate time on their motion to end an investigation into the contested election of Rep. Loretta Sanchez Loretta Sanchez (born January 7 1960), an American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1997. She currently represents the 47th Congressional District of California (map) in central Orange County. , D-Garden Grove. Senate Voted 91-4 to ship Clinton an $80 billion measure financing education and health programs that boosts spending for Head Start and biomedical research Biomedical research (or experimental medicine), in general simply known as medical research, is the basic research or applied research conducted to aid the body of knowledge in the field of medicine. but gives Republicans a victory by postponing at least until 2000 the president's proposed tests of fourth- and eighth-graders. Hoping to break a logjam log·jam n. 1. An immovable mass of floating logs crowded together. 2. A deadlock, as in negotiations; an impasse. Noun 1. that has stalled the last three spending bills for the new fiscal year, the Appropriations Committee In the United States government, the Appropriations Committee can refer to either:
Negotiators agreed on legislation overhauling the Food and Drug Administration and prepared to bring it to the floor. The bill was designed to speed the approval of drugs. Approved on a voice vote a bill designed to move foster and other children to adopted families faster, including financial incentives for states as children are placed. Lawmakers hope to send a final version of the bill to Clinton today. |
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