Subject: Doubling of Funding for Supercollider Is Cleared by House-Senate Conference 
Date: Published: 7/31/91 (45 lines)
Source: Wall Street Journal. Copyright Dow Jones & Co. Inc.

    Doubling of Funding for Supercollider
    Is Cleared by House-Senate Conference
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    By David Rogers
    Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

    WASHINGTON -- A House-Senate conference approved a nearly
 $21.9 billion energy and water bill that would double current
 funding for the superconducting supercollider and provide
 $3.68 billion for cleaning up nuclear-weapons plants.
    The action came as separate negotiations cleared the way
 for a 23% salary increase for senators as part of a $2.3
 billion legislative bill that seeks to equalize pay in both
 houses while establishing a common ban on the honoraria and
 stipends still earned by members of the Senate.
    Senate salaries would increase to $125,100 a year, while
 the three top leaders -- Majority Leader George Mitchell,
 Republican Leader Robert Dole and Sen. Robert Byrd, the
 president pro tempore -- would receive $138,900.  Upon
 enactment of the bill, senators could no longer keep speaking
 fees, and rules governing stipends and gifts would be
 tightened.

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    More broadly, Mr. Helms continues to pepper bills this
 summer with amendments fulfilling his conservative agenda,
 and a $22.1 billion measure concerning the State, Justice and
 Commerce Departments became his latest target last night.  The
 Republican added language barring federal prisoners from
 receiving college education grants.  And a second Helms
 provision on AIDS testing, adopted after an unsuccessful
 55-44 tabling motion, would impose a sweeping mandate on
 states to adopt laws overriding "informed consent"
 requirements and empowering doctors to require patients to be
 tested for AIDS before surgery or certain dental procedures.

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