roundtable: SENATE VOTES TO KILL OTA

roundtable: SENATE VOTES TO KILL OTA

SENATE VOTES TO KILL OTA

Vigdor Schreibman - FINS (fins@access.digex.net)
Thu, 20 Jul 1995 19:37:01 -0400 (EDT) 

Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 19:37:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: Vigdor Schreibman - FINS <fins@access.digex.net>
To: tp roundtable - messages <roundtable@cni.org>
Subject: SENATE VOTES TO KILL OTA
Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950720191948.15270A-100000@access1.digex.net>


SENATE VOTES TO KILL OTA
Amendment To Save OTA Fails

Washington, DC--The US Senate this evening agreed by a vote of 54 
to 45 to table an amendment (No. 1808) to the Legislative Branch 
Appropriations for FY 1996, offered by Sen. Hollings, which would 
have provided funds to retain the viability of the Office of 
Technology Assessment.  The amendment would have established an 
Office of Congressional Services into which there would have been 
consolidated the OTA together with other legislative branch support 
agencies, including the General Accounting Office and the Government 
Printing Office, under the control of the Library of Congress.  The 
vote leaves standing the bill [HR 1854] reported to the Senate 
Tuesday that would terminate the OTA, while sustaining funding for 
the GPO and Depository Library Program that the House bill would 
have severely reduced. 

Vigdor Schreibman - FINS <fins@access.digex.net>

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