U.S. House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas) said he was abandoning efforts to create a school voucher program in the District of Columbia this year. President Clinton earlier this year vetoed a bill that would have provided tuition vouchers for students in the nation’s capital to use at private or religious schools, but Republicans had been attempting to include the voucher plan as part of a spending bill for Washington. Armey said he decided to walk away from the bill for now because he was confident it could pass next year with what he predicted would be “an even larger majority in both the House and Senate.”
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