Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Support is growing in Congress for legislation which would strip federal financial aid from students convicted of using or selling illegal drugs. The House has already passed several versions of a provision that would allow the government to cut off aid to recipients of federal contracts or grants whose employees are convicted of using or selling drugs at work...
...House had come under fire over a provision that would have increased on October 1 the price-support level for milk to $11.10 for each 100 pounds. It would raise consumer costs by a few cents a gallon at most and cost the government $145 million by congressional estimate. The Agriculture Department put the price tag at $300 million...
Both the House and Senate versions would cancel a 50-cent price-support cut set for January 1 and the plan to actually increase the level was denounced by Agriculture Secretary Richard E. Lyng as well as an array of business and farm groups that often are allies of the dairy industry on such matters...
THIS Southern strategy probably did not go unnoticed by the Republicans, who have attracted conservative Democrats over the years. It's highly unlikely that they are willing to give up that support just...
...something we can afford." The cost would in fact be offset by savings in the $17.7 billion farm-subsidies program already approved in the 1988 budget. As the drought tightens supplies and pushes up commodity prices, the Government will not have to pay out as much in price-support subsidies. In effect, Congress is recycling price supports in the form of disaster relief. The legislation, claim its supporters, would not add a penny to the Government's budget deficit...