CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
May 4, 1989
Budget Battle By a vote of 172 to 252, the House defeated an amendment sponsored by the Democratic leadership in hopes of getting Republicans, Democrats, conservatives, liberals and moderates to budget priorities. This occurred during debate on a bill (HR 2072) providing $4.7 billion in supplemental appropriations for domestic programs in the remaining five months of fiscal 1989. It caused Democratic leaders to abruptly pull the bill from the floor. The bill's price tag is $2.6 billion more than sought by the Bush Administration, as a result of the Democratic-led Appropriations Committee adding money for housing, homeless, veterans, anti-drug and other domestic programs.
NEWS
May 7, 1989
By a vote of 172 to 252, the House defeated an amendment sponsored by the Democratic leadership in hopes of getting Republicans, Democrats, conservatives, liberals and moderates to agree on budget priorities. This occurred during debate on a bill (HR 2072) providing $4.7 billion in supplemental appropriations for domestic programs in the remaining five months of fiscal 1989. It caused Democratic leaders to abruptly pull the bill from the floor. The bill's price tag is $2.6 billion more than sought by the Bush Administration, as a result of the Democratic-led Appropriations Committee adding money for housing, homeless, veterans, anti-drug and other domestic programs.
OPINION
May 16, 2005
The article "U.S. Focuses on Aiding African Union in Darfur" (May 12) might more aptly have been titled "After Declaring a Genocide, Bush Abandons Darfur." For the Bush administration to oppose the bipartisan measure that passed the Senate is a travesty. Due to administration opposition, House Republican leaders deleted the measure from the final version of a supplemental appropriations bill. The measure had called for sanctions against Sudan and a "no-fly" zone to stop the killing of innocents in Darfur.