
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, June 17, 1990                   TAG: 9006170200
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A10   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

SOCIAL SECURITY PLAN TANGLES CHILD CARE BILL

Slow-moving congressional efforts to fashion a child-care assistance bill are becoming entangled in an election-year fight to include a $3 billion Social Security break for senior citizens.

Some GOP lawmakers plan to offer a resolution this week in the House that would instruct the conferees to go along with an important - if largely unrelated - provision that the Senate added to its child care bill.

That provision would raise the annual limit on outside earnings that Social Security recipients over the age of 65 can have while still receiving their full government checks.

Opponents call it a $3 billion giveaway to senior citizens that would in effect be charged to the cost of children's programs.

The child-care assistance plan passed the Senate a year ago and the House in March. Both bills are languishing in House-Senate conference committee.

- Associated Press

by CNB