Facing expected revenue shortfalls 3
Committee recommends override of one veto!
By Victoria Ayotte
Senior Reporter
Facing millions in revenue short
falls, the Legislature’s Appro
priations Committee on Thurs
day voted to rec
ommend that only
one of Gov. Kay
Orr’s budget ve
toes be overrid
den.
The committee
recommended
that senators over
ride Orr’s veto of i
$467,000 for the '
Department of Aging.
On Wednesday, Orr handed down
about $6 million in vetoes to LB 1031,
the state’s deficit appropriations bill.
Orr said the state could not finance
the vetoed items and still keep the
budget balanced.
The state is required to keep a
reserve fund in addition to balancing
the budget. The reserve fund must
•contain 3 percent of the state’s total
expenditures.
Senators still must vote on some
appropriations bills that are on final
reading, the last stage of die legisla
tive process before bills are killed or
forwarded to the governor.
If Orr were to sign the bills on final
reading and the ones she has on her
desk, the state would face expected
revenue shortfalls of $2.6 million in
1990-91 and SI3 million by the end
of 1992-93.
If all vetoes to LB 1031 were over
ridden, the state would face expected
shortfalls of $8.6 million in 1990-91
and $27 million by 1992-93.
To override a veto, 30 votes are
needed. The Appropriations Commit
tee had the option of recommending
nothing to the Legislature, recom
mending no overrides, recommend
ing specific items for override, or
recommending that all the vetoes be
overridden.
Committee Chairman Sen. Jerome
Warner of Waverly said a constitu
tional amendment would be needed
to change the requirement of a bal
anced budget and 3 percent reserve
fund.
“I guess nobody goes to jail if we
go believe that,” Warner said, but
overrides would cause problems.
Sen. Scott Moore of Seward moved
to recommend no overrides. Com
mittee members then deliberated
whether a recommendation to over
ride specific items would be seen as
the committee “getting theirs” and
would make other senators more
likely to propose overrides for proj
ects they think are lmi'ortant.
Sen. Brad Ashford of Omaha said
he thinks the Department of Aging is
in a crisis situation and the committee
should recommend overriding Orr’s
$467,000 veto for the Community
Aging Services Act
The crisis will be caused by the
effects of the higher minimum wage,
he said.
Sen. Lorraine Langford of Kear
ney said recommending specific se
lective items to be overridden gives
senators the message that the “flood
gate is open.”
“I don’t think we should do it as a
committee,” she said.
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Moore said, * ‘The body as a whole
is overspent” and possibly already in
violation of the 3 percent reserve
requirement. When “there’s no money,
you stop writing checks,” he said.
“The bottom line ... is we don’t
have any more money,” Sen. Gary
Hannibal of Omaha said.
Sen. Sandra Scofield of Chadron
said she doesn’t think it would matter
very much if senators proposed one
item for override because the over
ride ball is “going to roll anyway.”
Ashford also said he thinks that
when there is an ‘‘absolute emer
gency,” such as in the aging pro
gram, the committee has the respon
sibility to recommend overrides.
Senators then passed an amend
ment to Moore’s motion to recom
mend that only the aging program
vetoes be overridden.
Sen. Roger Wehrbein of
PlatLsmouth said the committee proba
bly will not be seen as “looking for
turf ’ because only one item was rec
ommended for override.
The Legislature is expected to at
tempt veto overrides Monday, the last
day of the session.
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talk on Eastern Europe and recent
changes there before the end of
April, Williams said.
A core group of about 10 fac
ulty members has been meeting
weekly since early in the semester
to work on the project, he said.
Students were invited to join about
March 1, he said.
Many of the faculty members
also are involved in ADAPT
(Accenting the Development of
Abstract Processes of Thought), a
program consisting of three classes
in physics, anthropology and Eng
lish. The program focuses on de
veloping more rational thinking
among freshmen.
Faculty members involved in
the ADAPT program are interested
in more than just classroom teach
ing and standard research, he said.
Although he is not aware of any
students representing fraternities
and sororities in the ewe group,
Williams said, he would like to
expand the program to include them
in the discussions.
A student assistant in the group
will survey students to determine
what issues interest them, he said.
Williams said a 1:30 p.m.
Monday meeting in the dining hall
at Selleck Residence Hall is open
to all students and faculty mem
bers.
Senator plans fight for vetoed bill
By Victoria Ayotte
Senior Reporter
State Sen. Rod Johnson of Sutton on Thurs
day said he plans to fight Gov. Kay Orr’s veto
of his bill, which would provide for a compre
hensive waste reduction and rjggl
recycling plan in Nebraska. h ^ I
LB 163 also would pro
vide for grants to local B3
governments for recycling, ► ^
solid waste disposal and
reduction and licensing of r*0!
landfills not meeting fed- PJ^J
eral standards. H
“Proper solid waste dis
posal and recycling may not lul
be high priorities this year for Gov. Orr — but 1
assure you that they are of the highest priority
for me and for hundreds of Nebraska commu
nities,” Johnson said in a press release.
Although the governor said the bill has
problems, her concerns are “no reason for the
Legislature to ignore the makings of a slate
wide environmental crisis.”
The crisis could come from hundreds of
unlicensed landfills possibly leaking contami
nants, he said. Those landfills could be closed
if they don’t meet upcoming “stringent” fed
eral landfill requirements, Johnson said.
“The governor’s rationale for vetoing LB 163
misses the point entirely,” he said.
Orr said the bill does not deal with past
problems, such as the “state’s most pressing
solid waste issue,” which “involves correct
ing past mistakes in the siting and closure of
dumps.”
But correcting past problems was not the
bill’s purpose, Johnson said.
Future alternative solid waste disposal solu
tions arc needed to stop the problem, he said
“The governor’s logic has the cart in front
of the horse,” he said.
The governor also objected to the bill’s SI
tax on tires and a fee for businesses. Johnson
said those were necessary to finance the bill’s
provisions.
UNL plans first pluralism conference
By Matt Herek
Staff Reporter____
One of the highlights of the nation’s first
conference on “systematic pluralism” will be
a session on the ethics of pluralistic legal
interpretation, according to a UNL official.
James Ford, associate professor of English
who is organizing the University of Ncbraska
Lincoln conference, said the session will cen
ter on whether the law should be interpreted by
its language or its intent, and if ethics control
the meaning of law, he said.
The four speakers conducting the session
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of law.
Ford said pluralists, unlike other philoso
phers, think one philosophy is not enough to
interpret things in the world. As a result, they
incorporate many philosophies into one school
of thought, he said.
“Systematic Pluralism: An Interdisciplinary
Conference,” will include experts in psychol
ogy, philosophy, sociology, literature, ethics,
legal ethics, criticism and metaphor.
The conference will be April 12-14 at the
Nebraska Center for Continuing Education.
All events are free and open to the public.
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vey Perlman, dean of the College of Law. A
copy will be sent to Martin Masscngalc, UNL
chancellor and NU interim president.
Jones said the protest is part of a national
effort organized at the University ot California
at Berkeley. Jones said that although students
at other colleges and universities boycotted
and disrupted classes in protest, she thinks such
tactics aren’t appropriate.
Dome Laster, co-chairperson of the Multi
cultural Legal Society, said the petition drive
comes at a good lime because two law profes
sors are going on leave and one professor will
retire this year. Those openings provide oppor
tunities to bring in minority and women faculty
members, she said.
But Perlman said there is no reason to re
place the professors on leave because they will
be back. And because the hiring cycle is over,
the retiring professor will not be replaced for a
while, he said.
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