Budget passes despite opposition
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Assembly members have voted to pass the executive's first budget, despite SDLP and Alliance Party opposition.
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The Senate on Thursday passed and sent to President George W. Bush a temporary spending measure to keep the federal government running through November 16, giving Democrats and Republicans time to work out budget disagreements.
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The Senate on Wednesday passed a $464 billion spending bill that closes out last year's unfinished budget business while providing clues about how the new Democratic Congress and President Bush will do business.
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In a March 6 story about Senate action on a homeland security bill, The Associated Press reported erroneously that an amendment to guarantee each state a bigger share of $3 billion in homeland security grants survived a challenge in the Senate. The amendment failed.
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The Fairfax County School Board was moving toward a vote last night on a much-debated $2.3 billion annual spending plan that several board members said was likely to preserve some programs the superintendent had proposed to cut to offset declining tax revenue.
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The Senate late yesterday resolved a dispute delaying passage of a sweeping corporate tax bill and two spending bills for disaster relief and homeland security, clearing
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Aug. 20, 2004  Budget cuts appear to have done little harm to the quality of America&#39;s state-supported universities at least the way US News &amp; World Report measures it. Public universities generally hold their own in the magazine&#39;s latest college ...
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DEFICIT SPENDING didn&#39;t bother the Bush administration when the issue was tax cuts. Congress had no trouble finding &quot;savings&quot; to supposedly offset new costs when the costs were in a corporate tax bill stuffed with special-interest provisions.
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Legislation to overhaul the nation's immigration laws cleared a key hurdle yesterday when the Senate voted 64 to 35 to take up the measure again after a nearly three-week break. But opponents of the proposal insisted they would scuttle it by week's end.
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Americans have resolved to improve their fiscal lot.
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TORONTO (CP) - The Ontario government is adamant it will push ahead with its agenda to improve health care despite a sound rejection of a proposed landmark deal by the province&#39;s doctors.
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Energy bill passes. Fossil-fuel companies continue to get tax breaks.
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Ministers are to confirm the NHS has balanced its books despite many hospitals still struggling with debt.
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By Rachel Rice, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Jun. 19--When the governor signed the state's biennial budget this month, there were many appropriations in it for northern Maine.   In fact, Rep.
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An opposition split could save the day for the assembly government's budget plans with a crucial vote on Wednesday.
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The House last night moved toward approving a $515.7 billion domestic spending bill that shaves billions from the Democrats' hoped-for spending levels but uses emergency spending and other tactics to challenge President Bush on his budget demands.
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Rejected by voters and limping off stage, the Republican-led House on Friday passed a sweeping bill reviving expired tax breaks and preventing doctors from taking a big cut in Medicare payments.