That Fenced-ln Feeling

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> The $1.75 billion antipoverty bill that the Senate finally passed, 49 to 20. The cost was just about equal to the amount that the budget-conscious Administration had asked. Originally, the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee had reported out a $2.5 billion bill, and most of the floor argument blew up around how much that figure could be cut. Still to be resolved are Senate-House differences on how the money is to be allocated.

> The foreign aid appropriations bill, which pushed through the Senate 52 to 22 after a slam-bang 21 hours of debate. The Senate slashed $110,000,000 off a House-approved version of the measure, finally passed a $2.94 billion total — which was well below the Administration's request ($3.4 billion) and marked the lowest foreign aid appropriation since 1957. The House quickly voted 189 to 89 to accept the Senate figure.

> Aid-to-education bills costing far more than the $4.4 billion the President requested. The Senate version, passed by a 54-to-16 vote, totaled $6.4 billion; the House bill, approved 237 to 97, would cost $5.7 billion. Both in effect will extend 1965's aid-to-education bill through June 1968, providing grants for nearly all of the nation's 26,000 school districts, with emphasis on areas that have large enrollments of children from poverty-stricken families.