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...accord requires the two parties to identify by next month industries and export products that could benefit from lower tariffs, and then gradually to reduce those duties. U.S. Administration officials said the affected products would most probably include processed foods, petrochemicals, electronic equipment and automobiles...
Mexico, which ships about two-thirds of its $21 billion in export wares to U.S. markets, hopes the Washington agreement will make it easier to sell more goods to its neighbor. Stronger export sales would help finance the country's $100 billion foreign debt...
When Democratic Congresswoman Pat Schroeder arrived in Washington in 1973 with two young children, she thought it would be only a year or so until Congress passed a federal child-care plan. Sixteen years later, Schroeder's children are grown, and the U.S. still lags far behind most other industrialized nations in national family policy. House Democrats have taken a big -- and expensive -- step toward catching up by defeating White House efforts to weaken legislation to create a national child-care program...
Once discrepancies in two slightly different plans approved by the House and a version passed earlier by the Senate have been ironed out, the program will land on George Bush's desk. The House version would expand Head Start programs for impoverished preschoolers, increase tax credits for poor families with three or more children and require states to set health and safety standards for child-care facilities. Though the President may grit his teeth, he may sign the act into law because it is attached to a budget-reconciliation package that contains a component very dear to his heart...
Such arguments did not sway Democratic lawmakers, who overwhelmingly voted down a pair of Administration-backed amendments. One, sponsored by Oklahoma Republican Mickey Edwards and favored by the White House, would have limited earned income tax credits for child care to a mere $200 to $300 a year; it was defeated by a vote of 285 to 140. The White House then tried to rally support for a compromise devised by Texas Democrat Charles Stenholm, which would have prohibited the Government from setting standards for child-care centers and personnel. It went down, 230 to 195. The bill's supporters...