Forest Service chief defends Bush budget
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Congressional Democrats dismissed as "unworkable" the first budget request of new Forest Service Chief Gail Kimbell.
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President Bush on Monday proposed a  $2.57 trillion budget that slashes domestic programs from farm  aid to housing grants for the poor, as he sought to curb budget  deficits that have soared on his watch.
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President warns Congress not to load bill with spending projects or delay sending for signature.
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Democrats are pressing ahead with long-sought budget hikes for domestic programs but are running into veto threats from President Bush, who's trying to regain his footing on spending.
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President Bush is readying a new budget that would carve savings from Medicaid and other benefit programs, congressional aides and lobbyists say, but it is unclear if he will be able to push the plan through the Republican-run Congress.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Feb. 11--As President Bush boasts of increases in funding for national parks, his administration continues to take a few steps back in other areas related to the environment. Consider proposed funding for national wildlife refuges.
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The Bush administration's top environmental regulator faced off Thursday against Democratic senators who took turns denouncing him for blocking tailpipe emission cuts in California and more than a dozen other states.
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President Bush on Monday proposed a  $2.5 trillion budget that slashes domestic programs from farm  aid to housing grants for the poor, as he sought to curb budget  deficits that have soared on his watch.
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Key Republicans in Congress on  Sunday questioned White House assertions that the Social  Security system was in crisis, one of President Bush's  justifications for acting now on private accounts, and said new  taxes should be considered.
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President Bush on Monday will  propose a $2.5 trillion budget that cuts scores of domestic  programs, from housing to environmental protection, in a bid to  show he is serious about reining in deficits that have  ballooned under his watch.
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President Bush will propose the  tightest budget of his presidency, cutting the growth rate in  government programs by almost half in a bid to rein in record  budget deficits, the White House budget director said on  Thursday.
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The US Congress put off sending to President George W. Bush a $388 billion spending measure to fund 14 cabinet-level departments until December while lawmakers argue over how the budget process works.
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Signaling he is poised to take a tough line with Democrats over the budget, President George W. Bush met on Wednesday with congressional Republicans and renewed a threat to veto spending he considers excessive.
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WASHINGTON -- President George W. Bush is proposing a largely stay-the-course budget for NASA, holding the U.S. space agency to an increase for 2009 that would be less than the rate of inflation.
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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, in his new book, bashes President Bush for not responsibly handling the nation's spending and racking up big budget deficits.
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President Bush said on Saturday that his upcoming budget proposal would emphasize restraint on domestic spending while putting defense and war costs for Iraq and Afghanistan as the top priority.
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By Douglas Fischer  President Bush's budget has been criticized for many shortcomings -- on education, global warming, alternate fuels.