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Associated Press - September 10, 1986
Senator Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., Republican of Connecticut, won approval of the amendment to a bill providing $113 billion for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education for fiscal 1987. The Senate then voted 83 to 2 to approve the measure. The House has approved similar legislation, and the two versions now will go to a conference committee.
Senator Weicker said the drug was not a cure, but it could provide an extra six months of life for those afflicted with AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
A fight over the abortion issue that could have delayed action on the measure was averted. The Senate dropped an amendment that would have allowed Medicaid to finance abortions for victims of rape and incest.
Senator Weicker said the cancer institute currently has only enough money to provide AZT to 1,000 of the 10,000 people in the terminal stage of the disease.
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