Congress split wide open last week over the $8.8 billion foreign aid billlast major Administration item on the legislative docket. In the Senate, the bill received relatively tender treatment, emerged with all its basic features intact, including the hotly debated provision giving the White House a free hand to borrow from the Treasury for the next five years without recourse to Congress. But in the House after three days of debate, the foreign aid bill was thoroughly mangled.
Borrowing. The crucial test in the Senate was the Byrd amendment, which would have denied the asked-for borrowing authority. Having passed...
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