House Batters President on Budget Issues: Rebellions House and Its ...
A rebellious House and its Dem-ocratic-controlled committees battered President Reagan on budget issues yesterday, handing him defeats on housing, college student loans, unemployment compensation and welfare.</br></br>In its second such action in two days, the House, on a 343-to-67 roll call, approved a $1 billion emergency measure, this time an appropriation, for a new program to subsidize mortage interest payments of families who buy new homes. The .program is meant to help prop up the sagging housing industry, a leading victim of the recession.</br></br>The Mouse passed the authorization bill for the program Tuesday. The Republican-controlled Senate is at work on similar legislation, but the Reagan administration opposes it as too costly, and Office of Management and Budget Director David A. Stockman yesterday said he would recommend that the president veto the authorization bill.</br></br>.YesterdayÛªs $5.9 billion appropriations bill also contains $1.3 billion in supplemental funds for student aid, $321 million more than the president wants, and $1 billion he did not seek for the Government National Mortgage Association, also to help support the housing industry.</br></br>The House also, in the same bill, declined to rescind $9.3 billion in previous appropriations for housing assistance to the poor. Reagan had sought rescission.