Panel OKs Textile Import Quotas
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WASHINGTON — House trade lawmakers, defying a presidential veto threat, today approved aid for the import-battered textile industry, and Democrats acted to speed work on sweeping export legislation.
“President Reagan seems willing to preside over the de-industrialization of America,” House Speaker Thomas P. (Tip) O’Neill Jr. (D-Mass.) said after the Ways and Means subcommittee on trade acted on the textile bill. “We in Congress are not.”
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