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— Griffin Daily News Monday, March 1,1976
Page 10
Budget committee
meets 10 minutes
ATLANTA (UPI) - The
House-Senate budget conference
committee met for 10 minutes
today and adjourned with no
sign the legislators were any
closer to agreement on disputed
items in the state’s $1,922
billion budget for the coming
fiscal year.
The three members from
each house went to work
separately on a “package” of
acceptable swaps to resolve the
deadlock.
House Majority Leader Clar
ence Vaughn of Conyers and
Senate Appropriations Chair
man Paul Broun of Athens
disputed published and broad
cast reports that the committee
had agreed to accept the House
position and give state em
ployes a 4 per cent pay
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increase, with a S4UU minimum
and SBOO maximum. The Senate
version calls for a >450 across
the-board increase.
“We did not reach a formal
agreement,” Vaughn said. “We
talked about it, but this is what
happens when you do these
things piece-by-piece. The news
media blows it out of propor
tion.”
However, it appeared likely
the conferees would accept the
House position on the state
employe pay raises.
Vaughn told the committee he
did not want the “packages”
offered by the two sides
circulated to the news media
and public before agreement is
reached.
“I’m not going to lay it on
the table for the general public
to look at,” Vaughn said.
The full Senate planned to
take up an editorial revision of
the Georgia Constitution and a
bill tightening regulations on
unemployment compensation
and raising the amount employ
ers pay into the fund. Both bills
have passed the House.
The budget committee met
Sunday and tentatively agreed
to accept a House plan to grant
4 per cent pay raises to state
employes with » S4OO minimum
and SBOO maximum. The Senate
had wanted to give $450 across
the-board raises.
Areas of disagreement left
unresolved Sunday night in
cluded:
— The present $32 limit on
Aid to Families with Dependent
Children, a welfare program
for families with needy children
where one parent is absent. The
program is 75 per cent
federally funded, but the
federal government does not
participate above the $32 level.
The Senate added language to
the bill authorizing the pay
ments to go as high as $33 per
participant per month provided
state money is available, but
House conferees seem deter
mined to hold the $32 limit.
— The amount of student
subsidies to DeKalb Community
College. The House wants to
raise the subsidies to SBOO per
student per year, but the
Senate wants to keep the
subsidies at the current $667
level.
— A merit system increase
for Board of Regents personnel.
The Senate has allotted $750,000
to begin the in-step raises. The
House appropriated nothing.
— Drug abuse centers. The
Senate wants $500,000 to contin
ue 16 of 18 federally funded
drug centers now in operation,
which will close this year
unless state money is appro
priated. The House version
includes no money for the
centers.
The conference committee
will resolve those differences
and present its report to each
chamber for approval. The bill
will then go to Gov. George
Busbee for his signature.
The legislature is expected to
adjourn on schedule Friday, but
several issues must first be
tackled in this final hectic week
of the session.
A conference committee re
port on a constitutional amend
ment to legalize bingo awaits
action by both chambers.
The House Ways and Means
Committee may send to the
House a major tax reform
measure to change property tax
assessments from potential use
of the land to actual use.
A bill to tighten regulations
on lobbyists, which passed both
chambers last year, is pending
in a conference committee.
the
sgl e^s^ature
C.C. cries stall
on lobby bill
ATLANTA (UPI) — Common
Cause charges Gov. George
Busbee and legislative leaders
are “stalling” to keep a bill to
tighten lobbying regulations
from coming to a vote during
the current legislative session.
At a news conference on the
steps of the Capitol Sunday, Joe
Foerst, the public interest
group’s legislative coordinator,
said “special interests” have
been responsible for keeping
the bill from a floor vote.
“Are the lobbying interests —
are the special interests — so
strong in the state of Georgia
that our elected officials are
powerless before them?" he
asked.
A six-member conference
committee set up to resolve
House and Senate differences in
lobbying bills passed last
session has met once this
session.
The Senate version would
require lobbyists to list, on a
year-round basis, how much
money they spent and to whom
it was paid.
The House bill, watered down
considerably in the Rules
Committee last year, would
require lobbyists to disclose
their spending only while the
legislature is in session.
Foerst said under present
law, “there is no control over
the process at all. The citizens
don’t know who is running their
government.”
He’ll run
as independent
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (UPI)
— Presidential candidate Billy
Joe Clegg says he is going to
run as an independent because
he does not want to be
associated with Communists.
Clegg, a retired Air Force
sergeant from Oklahoma mak
ing his second bid for the
country’s highest office, said
Sunday he was through with the
Democrats and the GOP.
“The reason I am leaving the
Democratic party is that I feel
that both parties are drastically
infiltrated with Communistic
sympathizers,” he said.
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A law passed several years
ago requires lobbies and
lobbyists to pay a $5 fee and
register with the Secretary of
State’s office.
Foerst said Common Cause,
itself a registered lobby, is
supporting legislation to force
more disclosure of lobbyists’
activities and financial expen
ditures.
He said Busbee, Lt. Gov. Zell
Miller and legislative leaders
have come out “in favor of
adequate lobbying regulation”
but are not pushing for passage
of legislation.
“They are stalling,” he said.
Common Cause, Foerst said,
wants a lobbyist to be required
to declare his name and
address, the legislative acts
with which he will be dealing,
the position he will take on the
issues and all his receipts and
expenditures involved in lob
bying.
He said the group’s proposed
legislation would answer the
questions: “Who is lobbying for
what, with whom and with what
money?”
“All we can do is ask the
citizens of Georgia to call
legislators and ask them to
produce a bill,” he said.
He said Common Cause was
asking Busbee, Miller and
legislative leaders to “assert
the independence of our govern
ment from special interests and
produce a strong and adequate
lobbying regulation bill now,”
before the session ends this
week.
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By NEA/London Economist News Sennce
LAGOS - (NEA) - Nigeria
is unlikely to change course
under its new head of state.
Gen. Obasanjo, the former
chief of staff, was Gen. Mur
tala Mohammed’s closest con
fidant and he has already vow
ed to continue the “dynamic”
policies of his assassinated
friend. The supreme military
council, which collectively
makes all policy decisions,
has been left intact after the
botched coup attempt on Feb.
13. Col. Dimka of the army’s
physical training corps, who
announced the coup on the
radio and is alleged to have
shot Gen. Mohammed, is still
on the run; he is said to have
been at an all-night cham
pagne party before he acted.
Col. Dimka failed to rally
any significant numbers of
soldiers behind his attempt,
even if the statement by the
Ist infantry division’s com
mander that the trouble was
confined to Lagos may not be
quite accurate. Another
member of the government
lost his life — Col. Ibrahim
Taiwo, governor of Kwara
state, who was kidnapped,
shot and buried on the mor
ning of the failed coup.
There have been reports of
arrests in Ibadan in the west,
where the 2nd infantry divi
sion is stationed, and of dis
turbances at Kano in the
north. This last report has
been strongly denied by the
government, and the Reuters
correspondent was expelled
for putting it out.
Kano is the center of
northern chauvinism and it
was there that a pogrom
against Ibos took place in
1966, before the Biafra war.
Any suggestion that
something similar is in the of
fing could have serious con
sequences throughout the
country.
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Yoruba from the west, has
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