The Nation : House Approves Super Collider Funding

The House approved a compromise $18.6-billion spending bill that includes money to break ground on a $5-billion superconducting super collider physics research center in Texas. The energy and water projects appropriations bill for fiscal 1990 also includes $636 million for environmental clean-ups at the nation’s nuclear weapons plants. The compromise between earlier House and Senate versions of the bill was approved by the House 392 to 27. Senate action sending the measure to the President’s desk was expected this week. The super collider, a 53-mile underground loop designed for examining subatomic particles, would get $225 million under the plan.