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Erie Calm
Hits Washington

JAMES DAVID BESSER WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT

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ashington, after the
end of a congres-
sional session, is
like a deflated balloon. For
weeks, the pressure builds as
legislators race to finish all
controversial legislation they
had been putting off. Sleeping
bags appear in House and
Senate office buildings amid
a certain emotional quality
reminiscent of a madhouse.
Then comes adjournment,
and, with it, an eerie calm.
Washington entered that
strange season last week,
after marathon House and
Senate sessions and a frantic
race to leave town so Mem-
bers of Congress up for re-
election could get in some
last-minute campaigning
before election day.
But Jewish activists from
a number of major organiza-
tions were still grumbling
about Congress' failure to
take up the Religious
Freedom Restoration Act, a
victim of this year's epi-
demic of election year jitters.
And once again, the Brady
Bill, which would require a
waiting period before pur-
chasing a handgun, was shot
down by pro-gun interests.
Most Jewish groups had
worked for the measure.
Nevertheless, Jewish ac-
tivists were happy with one
aspect of the last-minute

congressional rush. For a
change, Congress passed a
real foreign aid bill, not just
a "continuing resolution"
that would continue aid pro-
grams without forcing legis-
lators into the odious posi-
tion of actually voting on aid.

That fact could prove stra-
tegic next year, when for-
eign aid will be under even
more budgetary pressure as
a new Congress and a new —
or maybe a rejuvenated pres-
ident — grapple with the
budget deficit.

"This was a good sign for
foreign aid — and for aid to
Israel," said a congressional
staffer who spent many
hours in recent weeks work-
ing on the bill. "Perhaps, it
indicates that foreign aid is
becoming a little less poli-
ticized than it seemed to be
earlier in the year, when we
were worried that aid would
be a major issue in the presi-
dential campaigns."
Several Jewish activists
credited Rep. David Obey, D-
Wis., with engineering a
House bill that would be
easier for legislators to (f_
swallow and with maneu-
vering the bill around this
year's political shoals. In the
past, Rep. Obey has occa-
sionally butted heads with
pro-Israel forces.

Hillary Clinton Meets
The Jewish Press

Hillary Clinton, who has
been the target of attacks
from the GOP's right-wing
and from evangelical Chris-
tian groups, made her pitch
to the Jewish community
last week in a tele-
conferenced round-table
with a group of Jewish jour-
nalists.
Mrs. Clinton, who has
focused almost exclusively
on domestic matters during
her husband's campaign,
declined to discuss foreign
affairs. But she did rebut
published charges that,
while she was president of
the New World Foundation,
it awarded a grant to an
organization that con-
tributed to Palestine Libera-
tion Organization projects
on the West Bank.

"As I recall," she said,
"the grant was made for
$10,000 to Grassroots Inter-
national for a specific project
in South Africa. If the money
was diverted, I knew ri
nothing about it; and to this -
day I know nothing about it
other than the media
stories."
Of the ultra-conservative
and religious rhetoric that
seemed to dominate the GOP
convention, Mrs. Clinton
said she was "worried about
the talk of a 'religious war'
. . . This was never repu-
diated, but was implicitly
accepted, by the leaders of
the Republican party and
the Bush administration."
The rhetoric, she said, was
"designed to divide Ameri-
cans, to undermine the con-