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New Life for Gramm-Rudman

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Associated Press

The Senate voted today to give new life to the Gramm-Rudman budget-balancing law after brushing aside complaints it would still let President Reagan and Congress off the hook until after the 1988 elections. The Senate approved an amendment to a bill increasing the national debt limit that would restore automatic spending cuts to the Gramm-Rudman law by a vote of 71 to 21.

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