Crime Prevention Federal Aid

A provision in the sweeping omnibus drug bill enacted Saturday by Congress provides $4.92 million to fund a federal Drug Enforcement Administration task force to fight the spread of Los Angeles gang activity to other cities. These funds had already been approved for the DEA in an earlier appropriations bill, but have now been specifically earmarked for the anti-gang task force.

House Republicans completed most of their rewrite of last year's crime legislation Tuesday, winning approval of a $10-billion block grant to replace police hiring and crime prevention programs that Democrats had enacted into law. Defying President Clinton's veto threat, the House voted mostly along party lines, 238 to 192, to eliminate the centerpiece of the $30-billion 1994 crime bill: an $8.

The White House Tuesday denounced a new alternative Democratic plan for expanding the drug war by $4 billion as "price tag politics" and threatened a presidential veto if Congress approves it. The alternative, sponsored by Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.) and backed by other key Democratic leaders, would cut all defense and domestic appropriations by 0.575% to produce the additional funds required for next year's anti-drug programs. Meanwhile, William J.

House and Senate negotiators agreed to provide $3.2 billion this year to beef up the Bush Administration's war on drugs and other crime-fighting ventures. The money represents the major congressional role in the war on drugs this year. Despite the aura of urgency surrounding the issue, lawmakers had taken no action on the funding since the Senate approved it a month ago.

The Bush Administration declined Wednesday to target Los Angeles for special assistance under the President's anti-drug initiative at this time, even though the city is believed to be fast replacing Miami as the nation's cocaine trafficking capital. Despite growing evidence of the city's role as a drug distribution hub, William J. Bennett, director of the White House Office of Drug Control Policy, and Atty. Gen.

House and Senate negotiators agreed to provide $3.2 billion this year to beef up the Bush Administration's war on drugs and other crime-fighting ventures. The money represents the major congressional role in the war on drugs this year. Despite the aura of urgency surrounding the issue, lawmakers had taken no action on the funding since the Senate approved it a month ago.

The Democratic chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee called for an across-the-board cut in federal spending to finance a $10-billion package of anti-drug funding--some $2 billion more than the $7.9 billion proposed by President Bush. The sweeping proposal by Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W. Va.

House Republicans completed most of their rewrite of last year's crime legislation Tuesday, winning approval of a $10-billion block grant to replace police hiring and crime prevention programs that Democrats had enacted into law. Defying President Clinton's veto threat, the House voted mostly along party lines, 238 to 192, to eliminate the centerpiece of the $30-billion 1994 crime bill: an $8.

In declaring war against drugs without vastly increasing the federal budget, President Bush is hoping that a relatively small increase in federal funds can leverage a much greater response from state and local officials. On Wednesday, his idea already was meeting with substantial skepticism from mayors and police chiefs who will be called upon to see that most of the actual fighting on the cities' streets is carried out.

The White House Tuesday denounced a new alternative Democratic plan for expanding the drug war by $4 billion as "price tag politics" and threatened a presidential veto if Congress approves it. The alternative, sponsored by Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.) and backed by other key Democratic leaders, would cut all defense and domestic appropriations by 0.575% to produce the additional funds required for next year's anti-drug programs. Meanwhile, William J.

The Democratic chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee called for an across-the-board cut in federal spending to finance a $10-billion package of anti-drug funding--some $2 billion more than the $7.9 billion proposed by President Bush. The sweeping proposal by Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W. Va.

The Bush Administration declined Wednesday to target Los Angeles for special assistance under the President's anti-drug initiative at this time, even though the city is believed to be fast replacing Miami as the nation's cocaine trafficking capital. Despite growing evidence of the city's role as a drug distribution hub, William J. Bennett, director of the White House Office of Drug Control Policy, and Atty. Gen.

In declaring war against drugs without vastly increasing the federal budget, President Bush is hoping that a relatively small increase in federal funds can leverage a much greater response from state and local officials. On Wednesday, his idea already was meeting with substantial skepticism from mayors and police chiefs who will be called upon to see that most of the actual fighting on the cities' streets is carried out.

A provision in the sweeping omnibus drug bill enacted Saturday by Congress provides $4.92 million to fund a federal Drug Enforcement Administration task force to fight the spread of Los Angeles gang activity to other cities. These funds had already been approved for the DEA in an earlier appropriations bill, but have now been specifically earmarked for the anti-gang task force.