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Congress allotted the money to the city as part of the National Clean Water Act, which passed over President Reagan's two-time veto last week. The money will be distributed next October and is portion of $2.4 billion slated for water clean-up throughout the country...
...kind of blunt protectionist strictures that have been championed with increasing vigor on Capitol Hill. In past years the White House was able to rely on the Republican-dominated Senate to help keep such sentiments under control. Last August those loyalist forces helped Reagan sustain, although narrowly, a presidential veto of a protectionist trade bill that had passed both the House and the Senate. That bill took a piecemeal approach, among other things setting a new system of country-by-country quotas on imports of textiles, shoes and copper from such places as Taiwan, South Korea and Thailand...
This year the Democrats control both legislative chambers, and a presidential veto alone does not appear to be enough to stem the protectionist tide. Democratic Representatives have resubmitted a tough trade bill that the House passed last year but that died in the Senate. Included in that bill is a controversial amendment sponsored by Democratic Representative Richard Gephardt of Missouri. It provides that countries with highly protected domestic markets that run large surpluses with the U.S. would face automatic trade restrictions unless the surplus is reduced by fixed percentages annually. Gephardt's proposal would remove virtually all presidential discretion...
That prediction seemed borne out later in the week when leaders of the 100th Congress called at the White House to discuss domestic policy. Reagan opened by pledging to veto as a "budget buster" a $20 billion clean-water bill that passed both houses of Congress by overwhelming margins. House Speaker Jim Wright and Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd told the President they thought they had the votes to override; on Friday, Reagan vetoed the bill anyway. Byrd pressed Reagan to call a kind of summit meeting with congressional leaders to discuss strategies for reducing the budget deficit. "I didn...
...same destination. It happened last year on tax reform and drug legislation. As the 100th Congress gets to work, the flock is forming early. This time its goal is to pass a trade bill, one that, for a change, will not be shot down by President Reagan's veto...