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Bottled Up

JAMES D. BESSER
Washington Correspondent

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awmakers fled Washington
for their August recess last
week with a slew of issues of
Jewish concern still on the
table. And with Congress headed
toward a September explosion over tax
cuts, budget bills and how to deal
with the surplus, some of those issues
are likely to stay bottled up for the
rest of the session.
At the top of the agenda for several
Jewish groups is the Senate-passed
measure enhancing current federal
hate-crimes statutes.
The House Judiciary Committee
held a hearing on the subject last
week, with emotional testimony by
hate-crimes victims, but Jewish
activists say the measure, which
expands current hate-crimes laws to
covert crimes based on gender, disabil-
ity and sexual orientation, will be a
hard sell in the House.
Both houses have passed a foreign
aid spending bill that includes $2.8
billion for Israel, in line with the U.S.-
Israel agreement for a 10-year eco-
nomic aid phase-out. But last week,
President Bill Clinton signaled a possi-
ble veto because the overall total,
$12.6 billion, is almost $ 1 billion less
than the administration requested —
not enough, the White House says, for
its foreign policy needs.
Also on hold: efforts to pay this
country's arrears to the United Nations.
Lawmakers appropriated some of
the money, but not enough to satisfy
the U.N. bill collectors. And that
could leave Israel without its only
friend in the General Assembly in
January, if U.N. officials follow
through with their threat to boot
Washington out if it doesn't ante up.
Both chambers have passed a con-
troversial Juvenile Justice Bill.
The Senate-passed version has mod-
est gun-control language, while the
House version has none. "Encouraging
conferees to include those provisions in
the final version will be a recess priority —,
for us," said Reva Price, Washington
representative for the Jewish Council
for Public Affairs.
At the same time, she said, Jewish
groups are pushing hard for removal
of House language allowing the post-
ing of the Ten Commandments in
public school classrooms.

