House passes $516 billion spending bill
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The House Monday approved a $516 billion measure funding 14 Cabinet agencies and funding for troops in Afghanistan, setting the stage for a year-end budget deal with the White House.
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After weeks of election-year  fighting, the U.S. House of Representatives on Saturday passed  $14.5 billion in disaster aid, much of it for the  storm-battered election battleground of Florida.
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The House on Thursday passed a &#36;145.9 billion package of tax relief to extend three popular middle-class tax cuts, giving President Bush his fourth major tax victory since taking office.
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With the new budget year only weeks away, the House has passed a &#36;142.5 billion spending bill that funds some 500 education, health and job training programs.
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The US Senate gave final congressional approval yesterday to $14.5 billion in aid for states hit by hurricanes and drought and $32 billion for homeland
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The House of Representatives on Thursday approved a huge corporate tax bill aimed at ending a trade dispute with the European Union while giving American manufacturers a new tax break.
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The House on Saturday unanimously approved &#36;14.5 billion for hurricane victims and struggling farmers as Congress moved a step closer to showering money on Florida and other pivotal states in the upcoming elections.
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Republicans whisked a &#36;388 billion spending bill through Congress on Saturday, a mammoth measure that underscores the dominance of deficit politics by curbing dollars for everything from education to environmental cleanups.
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When Congress passed the $388 billion spending bill last weekend, it allotted $16.2 billion for NASA, including nearly full funding of projects related to the president&#39;s Vision for Space Exploration.
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The 81-15 roll call Wednesday by which the Senate voted to pass a $464 billion spending bill.
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The House of Representatives on Saturday passed a &#36;32 billion bill funding homeland security programs this year after days of political fighting over the measure.
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The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a plan to give the U.S. economy a $146 billion election-year boost through tax rebates and other measures to stave off a possible recession by boosting business and consumer spending.
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The U.S. House of Representatives  overwhelmingly passed a &#36;427.6 billion Pentagon funding bill on  Tuesday after rejecting a bid by Democrats to force the Bush  administration to get court orders for its domestic  surveillance program.
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The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday easily passed a final bill aimed at improving education for millions of children with learning disabilities, with the Senate expected to follow as Congress rushed to complete its work for the year.
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The U.S. Congress on Tuesday passed  $2 billion in emergency spending to help hurricane victims in  Florida, a crucial battleground state in the upcoming  presidential and congressional elections.
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The U.S. House of Representatives on  Saturday easily backed a $388 billion package financing  government programs in this fiscal year from bus stops to  foreign aid after days of battling over measures in the bill.
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Ending months of deadlock with the White House, the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday gave final bipartisan approval to legislation that would temporarily extend the state health insurance program that covers about 6.6 million poor children.