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The New York Times - November 1, 1983
The President invited key members of Congress to witness his signing of a $104.4 billion appropriations bill that is a landmark not so much for what it does, but because it passed.
Its passage 11 days ago marked the first time in five years that Congress has been able to send the President a formal appropriations bill for the Departments of Health and Human Services, Education and Labor,
The measure provides an increase of $477.9 million in overall program financing from the fiscal year 1983, which ended Sept. 30.
Previous efforts to pass an appropriations measure have been frustrated by fights such as over Federal financing of abortions for women on welfare. Programs covered by the bill have operated under temporary stopgap financing bills since 1978.
Among the newest provisions of the bill is the addition of $41 million for research on acquired immune deficiency syndrome, the disease known as AIDS. The measure contains what has become an accepted ban on the use of Federal money to pay for abortions, except where a woman's life is in danger.
The bill also prohibits the withholding of any Federal funds for use in the court-ordered desegregation of Chicago's public schools and bars the use of Federal money to block school prayer or periods of meditation.
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