Nation IN BRIEF : WASHINGTON, D.C. : Senate Backs Rules to Speed Up Logging
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The Senate voted to keep special rules in effect to speed logging in national forests, rejecting a plea from President Clinton to restore fish and wildlife protections. Despite intense lobbying by the Clinton administration, the Senate voted, 54 to 42, against repeal of the “timber salvage rider,” which the president reluctantly signed into law as part of an emergency spending bill last summer. In a letter, Clinton urged Congress to repeal the provision “as soon as possible.”
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