
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, May 18, 1994                   TAG: 9405180115
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-12   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

SOCIAL SECURITY TO BE INDEPENDENT

The House voted Tuesday to detach the Social Security Administration from the Department of Health and Human Services and make it an independent agency, ostensibly to protect its trove of money from the ``political mischief'' of free-spending bureaucrats.

The bill approved Tuesday, 413-0, would make it harder for thousands of alcohol and drug abusers to squander monthly checks on sprees.

- The New York Times

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