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Congress will regain powers, lawyer says
By JERRY ESTILL
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON Congress will find other
ways to assert its control over administra
tive agencies now that the Supreme Court
has thrown out the legislative veto, the '
lawyer who lost the case said yesterday.
, The lawyer, Stanley Brand, chief counsel
to the House of Representatives, said that as
long as Congress could use such vetoes, it
' was willing to allow the agencies consider
able leeway.
Without those vetoes, Congress may in
stall much tighter reins on administrative
agencies “and that might not make for
good government in many instances,” said
Brand, who argued the losing side in yester
day’s decision.
Agencies actually might be more reluc
tant to'act for fear their decisions, while
unchecked in the short term, might stir up
Pentagon arms
policy costing
.money, lives
WASHINGTON - A Pentagon
policy of “buy it now and Band-Aid
it later” is running up costs and
giving troops new weapons that
may not work well in combat, the
chairman of a Senate investigat
ing panel said yesterday.
Sen. William V. Roth, R-Del.,
received majority support for that
view from witnesses called before
his Governmental Affairs Com
mittee to testify on the shortcom
ings of the military’s operational
testing program.
Roth said that under the Reagan
administration, “despite serious
problems ... no program has
been put on hold or stopped be
cause it was not operationally
ready for production.
Expediting work on a weapon is
not all bad, “as long as we have
somewhere an independent check
of what the system and vehicle can
do,” Roth said.
With that, he promoted his legis
lation to create an independent
Office of Operational Test and
Evaluation, reporting directly to
the defense secretary, that would
oversee the testing that now is
performed by the separate serv
ices.
Derek J. Vander Schaaf, the
Pentagon’s deputy inspector gen
eral, said audits by his internal
watchdog office have found four
problems common in operational
testing.
In some cases, he said, test
schedules were shortened to the
point where development and op
erational tests were held simulta
nously and full testing could not be
completed before a production de
cision had to be made.
such wrath that the agencies would run the
risk of being abolished at budget time, he
said.
Alan B. Morrison, the lawyer who argued
for the winning side, said the decision
“means that special interest lobbies, which
through their campaign contributions hold
so much power over Congress, will no longer
be able to gut laws protecting consumers,
workers, and the environment by seeking
vetoes for the rules needed to implement
them.”
Rep. Bill Lowery, R-Calif., was among a
number of congressmen agreeding with
with Brand.
“The decision very likely will require us
to draft legislation far more tighter, far
more stricter than we have in the past,” he
said. “And then there’s the all encompas
sing power of the purse.”
Not everyone agreed with Brand, howev
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er. Several members sided with Morrison’s
assessment.
Rep. Peter W. Rodino Jr., D-N.Y., chair
man of the House Judiciary Committee,
said, “I have long held the belief that no
matter how attractive legislative veto provi
sions are, they were an unconstitutional
extension of legislative authority.”
Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-lowa, chair
man of the Judiciary subcommittee on ad
ministrative practice and procedure,
characterized the decision as a “defeat for
the presidency” and said, “The bureaucrats
themselves may have less freedom.”
• Sen. Robert Packwood, R-Ore., chairman
of the Commerce Committee, said the deci
sion counters “last year’s devastating
death-by-veto of the Federal Trade Com
mission’s used car warranty rulemaking.”
“It is my fervent desire that the FTC rule
can now go into effect without threat of
congressional interference,” Packwood
House votes to limit tax cut;
budget compromise approved
By MIKE SHANAHAN
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON Defying President Reagan twice
in one day, the House voted 229-191 yesterday to limit
this year’s income tax cut to $720 a couple a move the
president has promised again and again to veto.
Earlier, in a double strike at the president’s econom
ic program, the Democratic-controlled House and the
Republican-led Senate approved a compromise $859
billion budget plan which Reagan says will short-cir
cuit the economic recovery.
The House approved the budget 239-186; the Senate
51-43.
The debate and votes on both sides of Capitol Hill
provided more of a preview of the 1984 presidential
campaign than any likely real change in the size of the
federal budget or each voter’s federal tax bill.
“In my view, we’re in the ’B4 election,” said Sen. Bob
Dole, R-Kan., chairman of the Senate Finance Commit
tee.
“The Democrats just rolled us,” he said. “This
budget’s a loser.”
Dole said the finance panel would be unable to find
the new revenues necessary to meet the $73 billion in
next taxes for the next three years called for in the
budget resolution.
The tax cap was sure to be defeated in the Senate,
where it was expected to reach the floor on Tuesday.
Reagan has threatened to veto any tax or spending
measures which violate his economic program, even
though they might be required under the budget
blueprint.
In considering the budget compromise, Senate Re
publicans were torn between loyalties to the conserva
tive Reagan and the need to honor the congressional
budget process which required compromise with liber
als and moderates in both houses on taxes, domestic
spending and defense spending.
Among those supporting the budget resolution was
Majority Leader Howard H. Baker Jr., who had been
under heavy pressure from Reagan to work for defeat
said.
Sen. Lowell P. Weicker Jr., R-Conn., said,
“Congress will take a careful look at the
agencies it has set up and some may go off
the books.”
“I would suspect the FTC will be one of
the prime candidates,” said Weicker, em
phasizing that he hoped that agency would
be left alone.
‘The decision very likely
will require us to draft
legislation far more
tighter, far more stricter
than we have in the past.’
—Rep. Bill Lowery, R-Calif
Rep. Elliott H. Levitas, D-Ga., chairman
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of the budget compromise.
Before the filial vote, the Senate rejected 51-41 a
proposal by Dole to reduce from $73 billion to $59 billion
the amount of taxes to raised under the budget plan
over the next three years.
During the House debate on the tax cap, Rep. Dan
Rostenkowski, D-111., chairman of the Ways and Means
Committee, said the proposed limitation would raise $6
billion next year and $2l billion over the next three
years.
Compared to federal budget deficits now ap
proaching $2OO billion, Rostenkowski said, the cap “is
little more than an asterisk on the ledger book.”
In the Republican-dominated Senate, opponents,
including Baker, apparently had the votes to defeat the
tax cut curtailment.
The average 10 percent cut in tax rates, which is to
start showing up in paychecks on July 1, is the third
installment of the president’s 25 percent reduction in
income tax rates over three years, the keystone of his
campaign to lower taxes, accelerate a defense buildup
and sharply reduce spending on government social
programs.
Reagan will not have a chance to veto the budget
resolution, which merely serves as a guideline for later
tax and spending decisions by Congress, but the appro
priations and tax measures approved under the ceil
ings set by the budget blueprint must go to the White
House for Reagan’s signature before they become law.
The president has said he is “prepared to veto their
(the Democrats) budget-busting bills again, again and
again.”
Specifically, the budget plan calls for $73 billion in
tax increases over three years, at least $l5 billion more
in domestic programs than Reagan wants and half the
10 percent military increase Reagan insists is vital for
national security.
The compromise would produce a $179 billion budget
defict in fiscal 1984, beginning Oct. 1, compared with
the $l7l billion deficit in the president’s original budget
proposals.
of the Public Works investigations subcom
mittee, said the decision could lead to “gov
ernment by the tyranny of the
bureaucracy” unless Congress finds a con
stitutional equivalent of the outlawed proce
dure.
He called the decision “a real train wreck
in government,” and added, “You’re going
to see the hands of agencies tied in ways you
would not believe.”
Brand said he believes the ruling “spells a
death knell for the War Powers Act” which
gives Congress power to veto, after 60 days,
a president’s decision to keep troops in
situations where they could wind up in
combat.
Stuart M. Statler, a member of the Con
sumer Product Safety Commission, called
the court’s decision a ‘great thing, not only
for consumers and businesses but for any
group that is subject to the regulatory
process.”
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Signalmen continue SEPTA strike
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The 44-member signalmen’s union
rejected a back-to-work request'yesterday from other labor leaders
and insisted on continuing a 101-day-old strike against SEPTA,
holding hostage about 1,000 other commuter railroad workers who
have reached agreement. ,
A 1 Archual, president of the Brotherhood of Railroad and Airline ,
Clerks, which represents 125 employes of the Southeastern Penn
sylvania Transportation Authority, angrily resigned as chairman V>
and spokesman for the 13 railroad unions and called his labor
associates “gutless.”
He pulled his union out of the pact in which all the unions had
agreed to honor the picket line of any group that hadn’t settled.
Archual said his members want to work, and the BRAC executive
board would decide soon on whether they can cross the picket line
of the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen.
The strike began March 15, after SEPTA demanded wide
changes in work rules for the system it took over from Conrail.
has not hurt environment
GPU: TMI
MIDDLETOWN (AP) The shut-down Three Mile Island
nuclear power plant did not harm the environment in 1982, the
plant’s operator told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission yester
day.
GPU Nuclear Corp. said it based its assessment on studies of the
Susquehanna River water, air, aquatic life, .soil, milk, vegetables
and fruit in the area near the plant.
Over 1,000 readings from radiation monitoring devices “indi
cated only atmospheric fallout and natural background environ
mental radiation levels,” GPU’s report said.
In March 1979 the plant suffered the nation’s worst commercial
nuclear accident, forcing it to shut down its Unit 2 reactor. Unit 1
already was shut down for refueling and has not been allowed to be
restarted pending NRC approval.
Reagan asks AMA for price freeze
CHICAGO (AP) President Reagan told America’s doctors
yesterday they should take the “painful but necessary medicine” of
a one-year freeze on charges to the government for treating
Medicare patients.
In a speech before a meeting of the American Medical Associa
tion, the president outlined his proposals for controlling rising
health care costs and said that “physicians, too, must share the
burden of slowing” those costs
Doctor bills paid by the government for treating elderly patients
under the Medicare health insurance program increased 21 percent
last year while inflation was dropping sharply elsewhere in the
economy, Reagan said, and a further increase of 19 percent is
expected this year.
Texas man says he has killed 100
MONTAGUE, Texas (AP) A former mental patient convicted
of murdering his mother and charged with two Texas slayings gave
authorities more details yesterday to back up his claims that he has
killed 100 women in at least 16 states.
Henry Lee Lucas, 46, has led investigators to two bodies and has
provided sketches and details about other slayings he says he has
committed over the past eight years
Lucas, convicted of stabbing his mother to death 23 years ago in
Michigan, is a “prime suspect” in unsolved murders of women “all
over the country,” said Texas Ranger Phil Ryan.
Montague County District Attorney Jack McGaughey said yes
terday it would take at least two months to check out the informa
tion Lucas has provided. '
Lucas is being held without bond on one of two murder charges
against him; no bond has been set on the second.
Honduran-Nicaraguan border 'critical'
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) The government warned
yesterday of a critical situation along the Honduran-Nicaraguan
border, where two American journalists were killed two days
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“It is evident that tension has increased in the zone and in
relations with Nicaragua,” Col. Cesar Elvir Sierra, chief of public
relations for the armed forces, said in a telephone interview.
Gen. Gustavo Alvarez Martinez, the armed forces chief, and
Foreign Minister Edgardo Paz Barnica said Wednesday that
Honduras “will act unwaveringly” in response to Nicaraguan
attacks
The foreign minister said in a radio-television broadcast that Uie
Honduran government would “continue working and contributing
to the reaching of a stable and durable regional peace, but at the
same time it will act unwaveringly to strengthen our internal
security and our defensive capacity against the repeated attacks,
provocations and threats of the Managua regime.
Bush starts European trip in London
LONDON (AP) Vice President George Bush came to London
yesterday to discuss the Reagan administration s Central Ameri
can policy and European nuclear missile negotiations.
Bush, on an eight-nation, 14-day tour - his second European trip
in five months - will meet with Britain’s new Foreign Secretary
Sir Geoffrey Howe today and then confer with Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher, fresh from her overwhelming re-election
victory June 9. . . ..,
Bush also will take part in a formation of a new center-right
political organization to be called the .International Democrat
Union. . . . . .
The IDU with original representation from 19 countries, is to
serve as a counterweight to the Socialist International the
worldwide organization of socialist nations.
Bush said in Washington before his departure that he will
attempt to persuade skeptical friends and allies that the admmis
tration is trying to promote democracy in Central America,
“imperfect as some of the systems are.”
Other stops on his tour are Sweden, Finland and Ireland.
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