Senate Approves Bill Providing $30.6 Billion for E.D.

By Mark Pitsch

WASHINGTON--The Senate last week approved a $204-billion socialservice spending bill for fiscal 1992 that includes $30.6 billion for Education Department programs.

Education funding in the Senatepassed version of HR 2707, the labor, health and human services, and education appropriations bill, was $800 million less than the amount approved by the House this summer.

The measure, cleared by the Senate on a 78-to-22 vote, contained $300 million more for education, however, than did the bill reported earlier by the Senate Appropriations Conunittee. The increase was due te an amendment, adopted on a 79-te-21 vote, that would allocate some unused budget...