Clinton Didn't Pledge Budget Veto, NEA Says

By Robert C. Johnston

Washington

The National Education Association backed away last week from a lobbyist's earlier statement that President Clinton had promised to protect education spending with a veto threat.

Meanwhile, a key senator said he canceled a budget hearing because administration officials failed to deliver proposals to offset increased education funding with entitlement cuts. On a more positive note, appropriations aides said they were working on what they hope will be the final fiscal 1996 spending bill, which they said would probably not include severe...