Word: provisionally
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Ten local communities -- including Cambridge -- had been given the veto during Volpe's first administration, and the governor, though opposed to the provision, signed it into law as part of a highway bond issue.
The Senate Ways and Means Committee deleted the veto provision by a vote of 9 to 2 before reporting the bill out late Monday. Senate president Maurice A. Donahue (D-Holyoke) put off the crucial vote on the measure until yesterday in deference to Minority Leader Philip A. Graham (R...
State highway officials have contended that unless the veto provision is eliminated, Massachusetts's $1.2 billion Interstate system is doomed. The federal government will pay 90 per cent of the cost of the system, which is now about two thirds completed, if it is finished by 1972.
Of all the bill's facets, the only one contested with any real heat was the provision that the Federal Government will subsidize lower-income families who move into private, nonprofit developments. The Government will pay the difference between 25% of the family's income and the rent...
The rent-subsidy section came under some scathing criticism; Virginia's Harry Byrd, even before the debate began, denounced the plan as "renti-care." A Republican-backed amendment that would have killed the provision was defeated by a 47 to 40 Senate vote. But that count sounded closer than...