Last May, Congress passed an emergency aid bill for Kosovo with anti-environmental riders.

Every year, House Republicans strip funding from favorite Clinton programs and lard the bills with anti-abortion and anti-environmental riders.

The Republicans also agreed to give up their most damaging anti-environmental riders to the appropriation bills.

In addition, the Senate version of the bill contains several anti-environmental riders drafted by Western Republicans, who are masters of the art of legislation by stealth.

Ms. Aurilio complained that this would violate the Administration's pledges to block anti-environmental legislative riders in the final days of the Congressional session.

The final bill was peppered with anti-environmental riders that allowed members of Congress to finance programs without debate.

The bill, which Mr. Clinton has rightly threatened to veto, also includes a half-dozen anti-environmental riders.

The bill sharply reduces appropriations for the Environmental Protection Agency and the Interior Department and contains a dozen or so crippling anti-environmental riders.

President Clinton should veto this spending bill and all others with anti-environmental riders.

A Senate-House conference has now approved an omnibus appropriations bill loaded with destructive anti-environmental riders.