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...divided House Appropriations Committee late last night voted to let states refuse to spend federal funds on abortions, even in cases of rape and incest. Supporters of the controversial measure proposed by Rep. Ernest Istook (R-Okla.) said it is a step towards restoring states' rights. But White House spokesman Mike McCurry called it "a back alley approach to taking away a woman's right to choose...
...previous 11 months had helped create the Mexican crisis. As it was, the chairman's effort had only limited impact on Congress, where populist Republicans have been joining forces with anti-free trade Democrats to make passage of the bailout package unlikely in the near future. Democratic Senator Ernest Hollings of South Carolina denounced the loan-guarantee legislation as a ``billionaire bailout'' to save the fortunes of rich investors on both sides of the border. Though House Speaker Newt Gingrich expressed backing for the Clinton proposal, he said, ``It's clear from polling data that there's just no base...
Even as the International Monetary Fund announced a $7.8 billion loan today to helpMexicoout of its currency crisis, President Clinton's once-popular peso rescue plan was hard aground in Congress. A key Democratic senator, Ernest Hollings of South Carolina, this morning attacked Clinton's $40 billon loan guarantee proposal as a "billionaires' bailout," saying Mexico is unlikely to pay it back. "Let's cut out this nonsense of trying to hoodwink the American people," Hollings told the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, where Chairman Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) ignored GOP leaders more sympathetic to the plan by giving...
Procuring that amount of donations is obviously not one of the easiest tasks. Ernest E. Monrad '51, chair of the Divinity School's current fund-drive, calls donating "an unnatural act of divesting oneself of money...
House committee members said they have mixed feelings about the proxy voting. Ernest Minelli '95, who said he has been involved in house committee for the last three years, said he thought the proxy method of voting was a good way to encourage participation in house committee...