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The disputed provision would have permitted Medicaid abortions for women who are victims of rape or incest, and who "reported promptly" to authorities. It was part of a spending bill that now goes back to the House Appropriations Committee for revision.
The abortion provision is part of a $156.7 billion measure to finance labor, health and education programs for fiscal 1990, which began October 1.
The Senate's 67-31 vote provided final congressional passage of a spending bill including the key provision on abortion, which the House approved in a surprise vote last week. The Senate previously had approved broadening federal funding for abortions, and its last vote was needed to send the bill...
Disparities such as these prompted the Texas Supreme Court last week to declare the state's method of school finance unconstitutional. In a 9-to-0 decision, the court said the wide gaps between the richest and the poorest of Texas' 1,071 districts violate a provision of the state...
Ironically, some California air-quality officials have raised strong objections to last week's House vote. They complain that a fine-print , provision in the federal action would end California's right to impose even tougher standards on off-road vehicles such as lawn mowers, dune buggies and construction equipment...