Lopsided House vote freezes defense budget
The House approved a Pentagon budget bill 278 to 106 freezing most defense spending for the next year and barring U S troops from Nicaragua, with a separate 312 to 111 vote backing the ban amid heated debate invoking Vietnam. The measure funds about 292 billion for the year starting Oct 1, and calls for retirement cuts and reform of benefits.
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House
Pentagon
U.S
Nicaragua
Senate
Thomas Foley
D-Wash
Reagan
House Armed Services Committee
Charles Bennett
D-Fla
Surgeon charged in deaths at Bethesda Naval Hospital
Washington AP The Navy convened a general court martial against Dr Donal M Billig charging culpable negligence for bungled open heart surgeries that killed four patients at Bethesda Maryland Naval Hospital. It also charges 28 counts of dereliction of duty alleging he operated without a second cardiothoracic surgeon present. The charges identify the four deceased patients.
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Navy
Donal M. Billig
Bethesda
Naval Hospital
Billig
Stalled budget talks revived with 90 minute session
Senate negotiators proposed a 59 billion dollar tax package over three years to pry open stalled budget talks with the House. The plan includes a 5 percent minimum corporate tax, tighter enforcement, repeal of the investment tax credit, and preserves a one year freeze on Social Security COLAs with protections for low income retirees.
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Washington
Senate
House
William H. Gray III
Senate panel rejects Reynolds as associate attorney general
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted down William Bradford Reynolds’s nomination for associate attorney general, jeopardizing a floor vote. Opponents accuse him of evasiveness and failures to enforce civil rights laws for minorities the disabled and women. Reynolds issued a statement after the vote saying he remains dedicated to administration goals and would stay in his current post. John V. Wilson, a Justice spokesman, said Reynolds intends to remain in his job, but offered no comment on prospects of a discharge petition or eventual confirmation.
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Senate Judiciary Committee
William Bradford Reynolds
Justice Department
Reagan
Reynolds
Senate
John V. Wilson
Justice
Wilson
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