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DUBLIN (AP) — After decades of delay and months of argument, Ireland’s lawmakers agonized Wednesday over government plans to pass an abortion bill for the first time... - PAGE A7
July 12, 2013
House OKs scaled-down farm bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans pushed a scaled-down far m bill through the House on Thursday, putting of f a fight over food stamp spending and giving GOP leaders a victory after a decisive defeat on the larger bill last month.
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members in future campaigns. But Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., navigated his colleagues to a narrow 216-208 vote by convincing Republican members that this was the best chance to get the bill passed and erase the embarrassment of the June loss.
Any other path to passage would have most likely included concessions to Democrats who opposed the original bill.
Last month, 62 Republicans voted against a broader bill after House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Cantor supported it. Only 12 Republicans voted against the new measure and no Democrats voted for it. Republicans said the food stamp part of the legislation would be dealt with separately at a later date, and Cantor said after the vote that Republicans would “act with dispatch”
to get that legislation to the floor. That bill is expected to make cuts much deeper than the original bill, which trimmed around 3 percent, or about $2 billion a year, from the $80 billion-a-year feeding program.
Many Republicans had said the cut wasn’t enough since the program’s cost has doubled in the last five years. Democrats have opposed any cuts. The food stamp program doesn’t need legislation to contin-
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POR TALES — County commissioners from around southeastern New Mexico met in Portales Thursday to voice their concerns to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s regional official about the Service’s plan to invoke a “threatened” listing for lesser prairie chicken. The scarce and skittish lesser prairie chicken has the potential to wreak economic havoc within communities across a region that are already struggling, commissioners from across the state told USFWS Regional Director Benjamin Tuggle during a three-hour meeting.
Supporters defend Asiana passengers begged same-sex marriage 911 dispatchers for help A lone bee approaches flowers in a flower bed on a hot summer afternoon, Thursday.
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ue, but Congress would have to pass a bill to enact changes. Dropping the food stamps drops the cost of the farm bill from $100 billion a year to about $20 billion a year. The measure passed Thursday would cut farm program spending by about $1.3 billion a year and is almost identical to the larger bill defeated last month,
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Same-sex marriage and gay pride supporters filled City Council chambers Thursday night following news that of ficials were considering a resolution earlier this week to declare marriage as a formal union between a man and woman. Though the proposal was pulled from the agenda after it was struck down by the Police Committee Monday, word had already spread throughout the state and across the country. Mayor Del Jurney welcomed the crowd — some
of whom had to stand in the hallway for lack of space — but then explained all city business had been canceled for the night. The council panel was noticeably empty as several councilors were absent. “By not having a quorum, we are not able to conduct city business,” Jur ney said. “I kind of anticipated that might be the case.” Councilors present included Art Sandoval, Barry Foster and Steve Henderson. The mayor rescheduled the meeting, including ruling on an ordinance to enact a Conven-
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Stunned and bleeding after a Boeing 777 crash-landed at the San Francisco airport, hundreds of passengers staggered across the debris-strewn tar mac, some trying to help the critically injured, others desperately calling 911 and begging for more ambulances as dire minutes ticked away.
“There’s not enough medics out here,” a caller told a dispatcher in a 911 call released by the California Highway Patrol. “There is a woman out here on the street, on the runway, who is pretty much burned very severely on the head and
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we don’t know what to do.”
Two people died and 180 of the 307 people were hurt Saturday when Asiana Airlines Flight 214, coming in too low and too slow, slammed into a seawall at the end of the runway. The impact ripped off the back of the plane, tossed out three flight attendants and their seats and scattered pieces of the jet across the runway as it spun and skidded to a stop. The battered passengers, some with broken bones, were told over the jet’s public-address system to stay in their seats for another 90 seconds while the cockpit consulted with the con-
trol tower, a safety procedure to prevent people from evacuating into life-threatening fires or machinery.
“We don’t know what the pilots were thinking, but I can tell you that in previous accidents there have been crews that don’t evacuate. They wait for other vehicles to come, to be able to get passengers out safely,” said National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Deborah Hersman.
And in this accident, it appears one of the two Chinese teens who died may have been run over by a fire truck rushing to the burning jet.
Gonzales gathering supplies for school year AMY VOGELSANG RECORD STAFF WRITER
It’s almost that time of year again; summer is quickly coming to an end and students are already in search of next year’s school supplies. But for single parents, trying to provide multiple children with the extended list of pencils, notebooks, markers, erasers and other necessities can be a challenge. That’s where Johnny Gonzales comes in. Gonzales has been heading up a collection of school supplies every year for 30 years. “We try to help the kids,” he says simply. “There are a lot of needy kids.” And for Gonzales, he
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believes education is what really matters. “(The best part is) seeing the kids one day get a degree from college and see how they are now owners and managers … and I helped them when they were little,” Gonzales says. He describes a dorky little girl and how he has had the opportunity to see her grow into a young woman and eventually an adult graduating college. “I see the change, and even though (providing school supplies) is a small thing, now I see them and rejoice because I had a part,” he states. Boxes were stacked as organization of supplies See SUPPLIES, Page A3
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Johnny and Angie Gonzales organize donations Thursday for the Community Volunteer Program’s annual School Supply Giveaway.