[Imc] Fwd: LPFM: Will LPFM survive negotiations this weekend/monday ?

Sat Dec 9 08:50:19 UTC 2000

>From: WRFR at aol.com
>Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 21:07:55 EST
>Subject: LPFM: Will LPFM survive negotiations this weekend/monday ?
>To: RadioFreeRVA at aol.com
>X-Mailer: Unknown sub 171
>
>Dear supporters of LPFM and Radio Free Richmond,
>
>(sigh) please call Clinton AGAIN ...
>it appears we need to REMIND HIM that we exist,
>DONT FORGET US!
>
>DONT LET LPFM GET TRADED AWAY IN BUDGET NEGOTIATIONS!!
>Contact info etc. available at:
>http://members.aol.com/wrfr
>
>
>
>The Big Broadcasters are counting on attrition
>to cause us to get tired and simply go away
>so that they can swoop in and get their way ...
>
>But ... there is tension that we can still expliot!
>
>Hmmmm. Interesting ... US House of Representatives
>Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) is in a tug-of-war
>with the Republican speakers of the Hosue and Senate.
>
>Delay wants the ULTIMATE delay in the current budgeting process
>... to simply pass the ball on to the next session
>of Congress with a Continuing resolution.
>
>This would be good for LPFM ... as I understand it,
>this would mean that all those pesky Anti-LPFM riders DIE!
>
>But ....
>
>Speakers of the House and Senate are working to put
>a final deal together with Clinton over the weekend,
>target date, Monday 12/11/00 to have a final agreement
>on the budget.
>Unfortunately there is no mention of LPFM as a
>vetoable offense here!!!
>
>The USA Today article notes that the Democrats are
>eager to pass these appropriations bills ...
>hopefully not so eager that Clinton gives away
>his legacy for Democracy: Low Power FM !!
>
>So ONCE AGAIN, it looks like we need to call, email, fax Clinton:
>http://members.aol.com/wrfr
>has all the contact info ...
>
>DON'T FORGET US:
>RESIST EFFORTS TO KILL LPFM WITH A RIDER
>ON THE APPROPRIATIONS BILL !!!
>
>===============
>
>http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40665-2000Dec7.html
>
>Clinton, GOP Reportedly Close to Budget Deal
>
>
>                    By Eric Pianin and Dan Morgan
>                    Washington Post Staff Writers
>                    Friday, December 8, 2000; Page A25
>
>
>President Clinton and Republican congressional
>leaders made important headway yesterday in
>bringing a grueling year-long budget battle to a
>close by narrowing their differences over
>education spending, immigration policy and
>beefing up Medicare.
>
>The breakthrough came during the second White
>House meeting of the week between Clinton and
>GOP and Democratic leaders. A combative House
>Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) has sought
>to scuttle the talks to avert a
>major spending boost in education.
>
>But House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.)
>and Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.)
>sharply differ with DeLay's tactics.
>They are pressing to strike a final agreement
>with Clinton before the president departs for
>Ireland Monday night.
>
>The administration and GOP leaders agreed to
>a series of additional stopgap spending measures
>to keep the government fully operating, with the
>expectation that the House and Senate would
>approve permanent legislation
>before the end of next week.
>
>"We hope to be able to finish the business for
>the year and for this Congress before the end
>of next week," Lott said on the Senate floor.
>
>"Everyone agreed that it was important to try
>to sit down and get some of this work done,"
>White House spokesman Jake Siewert said.
>"So those who just want to pack up and go
>home have not carried the day."
>
>While congressional leaders once vowed to wrap
>up their work by early fall, a bitterly fought
>and still inconclusive presidential election
>prompted lawmakers to kick over some of their
>most contentious disputes to a lame-duck session.
>Although the fiscal year began Oct. 1, Congress
>has yet to complete work on spending bills
>covering more than a third of all domestic spending.
>
>A dispute over new spending for labor, health and
>education programs has posed the greatest
>obstacle to a final agreement. The two sides
>tentatively agreed to spending increases of
>about $17 billion before the election. DeLay
>torpedoed that understanding, arguing in favor
>of essentially freezing spending until the
>next president--he hopes it will be Texas
>Gov. George W. Bush--takes office Jan. 20.
>
>During yesterday's White House meeting,
>Lott and Hastert proposed preserving many
>of Clinton's initiatives while scaling back
>the new spending by $5.8 billion, to a total
>of $107 billion--or roughly the level Clinton
>originally sought in his fiscal 2001 budget.
>
>Clinton and Democratic leaders didn't rule
>out the proposal, according to sources familiar
>with the talks, although the president said he
>was skeptical that Republicans could protect
>his programs and still make the cuts.
>
>The two sides agreed that White House budget
>officials would work with
>lawmakers to make mutually acceptable cuts.
>
>Republicans reported some progress on resolving
>a deadlock over immigration policy, but provided
>few details. Clinton has threatened to veto one
>pending spending bill unless it gives amnesty
>to hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came
>to this country between 1982 and 1986. Republicans,
>saying this would reward some who came illegally,
>have proposed a procedure enabling persons wrongly
>denied legal status in that period to seek redress
>through the courts.
>
>But Republicans are more receptive to another
>proposal by Clinton that would enable recent
>immigrants seeking resident status to remain
>with their families here during the process.
>
>Movement also was reported on major legislation
>that would beef up Medicare payments to hospitals,
>HMOs and other providers by $30 billion
>over the next five years.
>
>"The initial discussions [with the White House
>this week] were far more reasonable than when
>we left them" last month, said Rep. Bill Thomas
>(R-Calif.), who oversees the Medicare program
>in the House. The White House is seeking a
>modest expansion of Medicaid coverage for the poor,
>costing about $5 billion over five years.
>
>The Medicare provisions are attached to a tax bill,
>which has passed the House but not the Senate.
>It could be detached and moved through Congress
>on its own.
>
>DeLay caught Hastert and other Republicans by
>surprise Wednesday when he told reporters that
>because the Republicans had "won" the election, the
>leadership should take a hard line against
>domestic spending. He defied Clinton to provoke
>another government shutdown if he didn't like it.
>
>House GOP leaders yesterday sought to play down
>what appeared to be a growing rift between
>DeLay and Hastert over tactics.
>
>
>© 2000 The Washington Post Company
>
>
>
>
>Sincerely, Christopher Maxwell
>Secretary, Virginia Center for Public Press
>Radio Free Richmond Project
>
>LPFM Applicant for 92.7 in Richmond, Va.
>
>1621 W Broad St.
>Richmond, Va. 23220
>Wrfr at aol.com
>804-649-WRFR
>wrfr at aol.com
>
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