Word: shutdowns
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...spending bill. But the White House is still demanding an additional $1.8 billion for Head Start, veterans medical care and other programs. Meanwhile, Clinton is expected to sign another piece of legislation that will raise the debt ceiling, averting a first-ever federal default. The measure prevents a government shutdown by extending federal borrowing authority through September 1997, but at a cost of raising the national debt ceiling to $5.5 trillion...
...passed a $166 billion bill to fund dozens of government agencies through September. The House has already passed a smaller version. The two chambers probably won't be able to work out a compromise that will be acceptable to the White House until next week. Meanwhile, with a government shutdown looming on Friday, Congress is expected to send Clinton a bill to keep the government running through March...
...racing to see who could move fuel rods the fastest. The competition, he said, tripped radiation alarms and overheated the fuel pool. Reynolds' job was to remove the big bolts that hold the reactor head in place. Sometimes, he said, he was told to remove them so soon after shutdown that the heat melted his protective plastic booties...
...they would be reflected in operator's logs filed in Northeast's document room. So, on Oct. 6, he appeared in the room and asked for the appropriate rolls of microfiche. The logs backed up what Reynolds had said: Millstone had moved fuel as soon as 65 hrs. after shutdown--a quarter of the required time. The logs noted the sounding of alarms. Galatis wondered where the resident inspector had been...
With this idea they met Clinton head on in late 1995. And although they were tactically bested--the government shutdown proved a disaster for Republicans--they won philosophically. Clinton conceded all their principles. He finally embraced their seven-year balanced budget. Then, in a State of the Union speech that might have been delivered by a moderate Republican, he declared, "The era of Big Government is over," the dominant theme of the Gingrich revolution...