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  • Title: Gag rule delay dropped, rape-incest exception kept by Senate in HHS bill.
    Journal: Wash Memo Alan Guttmacher Inst; 1992 Sep 22; (14):2-3. PubMed ID: 12317777.
    Abstract:
    The joint conference committee currently meeting to resolve differences between the US Senate and House versions of a Labor, Health and Human Services (HHS), and Education appropriations bill has a tight bottom line and few controversial provisions. With language to overturn the gag rule already deleted, pro-choice congressional advocates hope that the bill sent to President Bush will include the provision accepted by the Senate last week to allow federal funding under Medicaid for abortions in cases of rape and incest. The House, by a vote of 345 to 54, passed the Labor-HHS appropriations bill which grew to $244 billion for fiscal 1993; nearly 3/4 of the appropriation--$179 billion--would be reserved for entitlement programs (Medicare, Medicaid, Aid to Families with Dependent Children). The remainder would be for discretionary spending. The Senate continued the same Spartan tone, though some programs received additional funds; none of the increased funds were designated for Title III early intervention and prevention programs. Women's health research received additional funding, as did the Title X family planning program. As usual with this contentious legislation, a plethora of amendments were offered. On funding issues, the most controversial were 3 that sought to "break down the walls" and allow the transfer of funds from the defense discretionary account into the domestic discretionary account. Among the 65 threatened amendments, the most widely anticipated and feared, were those of Sen. Jesse Helms, who has long favored the Labor-HHS bill as a venue for restrictive social policy amendment. He threatened an amendment restricting the use of federal funds for the purchase or distribution of condoms, particularly for school-based condom availability. Helms backed down from offering any condom-related amendment, reportedly after a lengthy and pointed discussion with other Republicans who convinced him that this time he had been out organized.
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