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Bilingual education programs came to life with the Supreme Court's Lau decision in 1974, recognizing the Constitutional right of non-English speaking students to instruction in their native language. Congress responded with bipartisan approval of the Bilingual Education Act, requiring that all school districts provide bilingual instruction for those who need...
...first of these bills to come close to a vote, the textile measure is a kind of test case of protectionist sentiment. Present outlook: some version of it will sail through both chambers of Congress; after all, bipartisan majorities of both House and Senate have signed on as co-sponsors. Reagan will veto it, repeating dire warnings that U.S. protectionism could once again provoke foreign retaliation against what remains of American exports (which is plenty: the U.S. is still the world's biggest exporter by 27% over runner-up West Germany). Such retaliation is what happened after Congress passed...
...issue has divided liberals and conservatives for decades. But lawmakers from both ends of California's political spectrum have joined forces to approve a new approach to the vexing problem of welfare. The beneficiary of this bipartisan harmony is Greater Avenues for Independence (GAIN), a program that would require many able-bodied welfare recipients to accept training and jobs along with their government checks. California's work-for-welfare, or workfare, bill won in the state senate by a vote of 32 to 2 and in the assembly by 60 to 9. Last week Republican Governor George Deukmejian signed...
...bipartisanship. If tax reform is not bipartisan, you won't have tax reform...
...Administration tried to put its best face on the missile cap. Said McFarlane: "Fifty on the way to 100, confirmed by a bipartisan vote, is clearly worthwhile." When a reporter pointed out that there was nothing in the bill guaranteeing an increase to 100 missiles, McFarlane retorted, "There is nothing in it that doesn't. You must always look at the glass as half full...