CLINTON SIGNS STOPGAP SPENDING BILL NO. 10.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. President Clinton Clinton. 1 Town (1990 pop. 12,767), Middlesex co., S Conn., on Long Island Sound; settled 1663, set off from Killingworth and inc. 1838. The school that later became Yale opened here in 1702. , accusing Congress of evading its responsibilities, signed a 10th stopgap spending bill Friday, averting a·vert tr.v. a·vert·ed, a·vert·ing, a·verts 1. To turn away: avert one's eyes. 2. another partial government shutdown  This article or section may deal primarily with the U.S. and may not present a worldwide view. in an election year.
The measure keeps federal employees on the job and programs running for at least one more week, but does not resolve a months-long impasse im·passe n. 1. A road or passage having no exit; a cul-de-sac. 2. A situation that is so difficult that no progress can be made; a deadlock or a stalemate: reached an impasse in the negotiations. between Clinton and the Republican-controlled Congress over a broad range of spending priorities. In signing the legislation, which postpones a deadline until Friday for agreement on broader budget issues, Clinton called it "regrettable that I must sign yet another" temporary spending bill. "However, Congress still has not passed five of this year's 13 appropriations bills in acceptable form, so this measure is necessary to prevent a third government shutdown," Clinton said. Although the White House and Congress remain far apart on spending for the rest of this fiscal year, neither Democrats nor Republicans wanted to bear the political fallout fallout, minute particles of radioactive material produced by nuclear explosions (see atomic bomb; hydrogen bomb; Chernobyl) or by discharge from nuclear-power or atomic installations and scattered throughout the earth's atmosphere by winds and convection currents. from another shutdown shut·down n. A cessation of operations or activity, as at a factory. shutdown Noun the closing of a factory, shop, or other business Verb shut down of dozens of government departments and agencies. "We are now nearly halfway through the fiscal year," the president said. He said services of state and local governments, as well as federal agencies, have been impaired by continuing uncertainty over funding levels and spending authority. The temporary spending bill is the 10th in the fiscal year that began Oct. 1. The measure provides for the extension of appropriations for activities in four of five bills that have not been passed by Congress. "I urge Congress to meet its responsibilities by sending me legislation for the remaining fiscal 1996 appropriations bills in an acceptable form," Clinton said. "I have made it clear to the Congress what changes need to be made to make them acceptable." The changes he wants, Clinton said, would protect vital programs in education, the environment, law enforcement and technology. Democrats offered Republicans little help in pushing the stopgap bill through the House by a 238-179 vote Thursday. But the Senate adopted it without opposition Thursday night after Republicans agreed to add $727 million in environmental funds to the $160 billion measure. |
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