Nixon vetoes funds for EPA and agriculture bill
President Nixon vetoes the annual Agriculture and EPA funding bill, citing inflation risks and budget overruns of about 150 million in the current year and 400 million in the following year. He criticizes water and sewer grants and asks Congress to reconsider, noting the EPA Great Lakes cleanup provision and FTC data survey provisions.
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Aid-for-jobless bill signed by Nixon
President Nixon signed a bill extending the unemployment relief program in high unemployment areas and boosting cost of living in creases for aged, blind and disabled people. The expanded program covers about 26 states and extends to April 30, 1975. It ties automatic SSI increases to Social Security cost of living hikes, ensuring $146 monthly for individuals and $210 for couples for over 3 million people.
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Drought Could Spur Call for Export Controls
Midwestern drought may push for export limits on U S grain officials warn. Assistant Secretary Clayton Yeutter opposes controls calling them pro inflationary though drought losses reach billions. He cites policy continuity under Ford and Nixon lines, as crop reports loom. Texas faces floods while drought persists in Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma.
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Measure on policing commodity markets gains House support
The Senate Agriculture Committee approved a landmark bill creating an independent commission to expand federal policing of the $50 billion annual commodity futures market. The tightening reform would regulate futures trading across 28 agricultural commodities and more than 20 other products including coffee sugar silver tin and foreign currency.
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