House OKs Panama Canal Funds
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WASHINGTON — The House today easily passed and sent to the Senate a bill authorizing the U.S. government to spend $437 million in the next fiscal year to operate and maintain the Panama Canal.
The 327-59 vote came after only brief debate and no attempts to kill it--in contrast to past years when conservatives had fought strongly against U.S. plans to turn the important Central American waterway over to Panama by the year 2000.
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