Textile bill moves closer to riding on budget act.

Daily News Record, October, 1985 by Schwartz, Lloyd

WASHINGTON (FNS) -- Senate proponents of the textile and apparel import quota bill, brushing aside a new White House veto threat, were moving Thursday night at press time to incorporate the measure in the $75 billion budget reconciliation legislation.

Unless some further accommodation is reached to assure a separate vote on the import quota bill, the budget legislation could prove to be the breakthrough the industry/labor coalition had long hoped to achieve.

The House already has passed an even more stringent version. It would still be available if the budget measure containing the quota language was vetoed by President Reagan and an override failed. Neither the House nor Senate seems to have enough votes to reverse a Presidential veto.

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