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Tax-cut package passes
WASHINGTON — In a final
flourish for the “Contract With
America,” the House passed Repub
lican tax-cut legislation Wednesday
night blending a $500-per-child tax
credit with reductions long sought by
business.
Democrats battled the measure to
the end as too generous to the rich.
The vote was 246-188 to send the
measure to the Senate, where it is
likely to undergo extensive revision
at the hand of deficit-conscious law
makers of both parties.
Moments before the final vote,
House Speaker Newt Gingrich sealed
the case for passage, saying every
lawmaker should ask: “In your con
stituents’ lives, won’t a little less
money for government and a little
more money for those families be a
good thing, and isn’t that what this
Congress was elected to do?”
President Clinton, who favors a
smal ler tax reduction, argued the other
side for the Democrats, saying the
GOP’s five-year, $189 billion mea
sure marked a return to “trickle-down
economics.” Republicans, he said,
want to cut Head Start and education
“to pay for a tax cut for the wealthiest
Americans. ... That is wrong.”
The Clinton administration
reached agreement with Senate lead
ers on a package of $16 billion in
spending cuts in social programs. That
measure faces a final vote in the
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lax cut bill
The tax-cut plat before the House Wednesday was approved
246-188. The plan would cost $189 ballon over &e yeas.
Key provisions:
FAMILY * If
• $606-per«chijd credit for children under 18 In families earning J‘
$200,000 a year or less. Would be phased out for the worthiest
fomffies.
• A credit of up to $145 to offset foe “marriage penalty."
• The American Dream Savings Account, permitting tax-free
withdrawals after five years for retirement, first-time hone purchases,
higher education, medical expenses.
• One-time adoption cretfc of up to $5,000.
•Annual credit of up to $500 for costs of caring for elderly relatives at
home.
BUSINESS
• Beduces capital gains tax tor corporations, profits from asset sales.
• Phases out foe corporate minimum tax.
• Increases size of estates exempt from estate and gift taxes from
$600,000 to$75Q,000 by 1998.
•Lfoeralizes rules on deducting expenses of home offices.
BENEFITS
• Hols back 1993 tax increase on higher-income Social Security
recipients. Increases income recipients younger than 70 may earn
and still receive full Social Security benefits, from $11,280 a year to
$30,000 by 2000.
Senate, as well as negotiations with
the House that has approved $ 17 bil
lion in cuts.
Passage of the tax-cut bill sends
the legislation to the Senate, where
— along with bills on welfare, crime,
changes in the civil justice system
More privacy, less static
for new cordless phones
WASHINGTON — The static
that annoys cordless telephone us
ers may soon be gone.
The Federal Communications
Commission on Wednesday more
than doubled the amount of the
public airwaves reserved for
cordless telephones.
That means less interference and
improved privacy. But you’ll have
to buy a new phone to reap the
benefits, FCC officials said.
New phones will have the ca
pacity to operate xm all 25 chan
nels being made available by the
FCC.
The nation’s largest telecom
munications company, AT&T
Corp., plans to have new cordless
phones in retail stores by late June
or July, said spokesman Herb
Linnen.
Cordless phones now use just
10 channels, five of which are also
used by baby monitors. That’s why
cordless phone owners often over
hear sounds from baby monitors,
said Anthony Serafini, an elec
tronic engineer at the FCC.
The additional channels being
made available for cordless phones
are less congested, Serafini said.
There are 60 million cordless
phones in the United States. Sales
generate $ 1 billion a year, the FCC
said.
“Use of the new channels for
cordless telephones appears to be
the most reasonable means for en
suring that consumer demand for
these low-cost products continues
to be met,” the FCC said.
World.
and many other House-passed com
ponents of the “Contract With
America” — it faces extensive alter
ations.
“We’re going to have a tax bill,”
said Senate Majority Leader Bob
Dole, R-Kan.
Judge dismisses
sixth O.J. juror
LOS ANGELES — The trouble
plagued O.J. Simpson jury lost a sixth
member Wednesday.
The loss intensified fears that a
complete panel won’t survive the
stresses of the trial long enough to
deliver a verdict.
“It’s a concern that we have, that
we’ll be able to keep a pool all the
way through,” said Jo-Ellan
Dimitrius, a jury consultant for the
defense.
The ouster of the 3 8-year-old black
woman, was reportedly for failing to
disclose her own experience with
domestic abuse. Only six alternate
jurors — half of the original number
— are left. If the alternative pool is
exhausted and the number of jurors
falls below 12, a mistrial would be
declared unless both sides agreed to
continue.
The dismissal delayed resumption
of testimony by a key prosecution
witness for 70 minutes while lawyers
and the judge met in chambers.
When the jury finally was called
into court, the judge asked his clerk
to pick another juror by lot. Another
black woman, a 44-year-old com
puter technician with Los Angeles
County Superior Court, took the
empty seat.
The sexual and ethnic makeup of
the jury remains the same: nine
women and three men; eight blacks,
three whites and one Hispanic.