GOP Election Victory Shaping Budget Bills
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The Republican election victory and the sheer weight of record deficits are shaping a pair of mammoth budget bills that the GOP is trying to shove through Congress during its lame-duck session.
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Buoyed by President Bush's re-election and a political map with coast-to-coast Republican leaders, GOP governors gathered Thursday to cheer their electoral fortunes and discuss solving familiar fiscal problems at home.
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A measure that would give Republicans two more votes on the Executive Appropriations Committee passed 46-20 off of the House floor on Friday.  HJR9 would allow the two vice-chairs of the committee to vote on budget decisions.
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NEW DELHI, AUGUST 26: A voice vote was enough to complete the three-stage Budgetary exerciseâand clear over Rs 500,000 crore worth of finances.
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Every seat in the House of Representatives was up for grabs yesterday, but Republicans were expected to handily maintain their majority.
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Republicans toppled Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, winning their biggest Senate prize and expanding their majority in a Southern sweep. They added wins in Alaska and Florida on Wednesday.
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Republicans adopted a platform Monday that rallies behind President Bush's agenda while edging the GOP's social principles further to the right.
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Republican hopes to advance a more conservative agenda in the Legislature picked up steam with key victories Tuesday in Arizona&#39;s handful of competitive districts.
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The House last night approved a $515.7 billion domestic spending measure that shaves billions from spending levels desired by Democrats and uses emergency spending and other tactics to challenge President Bush on his budget demands.
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Many of the new chairmen of the House and Senate appropriations subcommittees have a lot in common with the Republicans they will succeed.
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Conservative Republican challengers prevailed against moderate incumbents in key legislative primary elections across Virginia yesterday, setting the stage for a bruising fall election in which Democrats will try to take over the GOP-controlled General Assembly by capturing the political middle.
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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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Still too close to call, initial results show the Senator with an edge over Mitt Romney in the winner-take-all GOP primary
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The U.S. Congress on Wednesday  passed a stop-gap bill to keep the government running into  November avoiding some tough election-year votes as Republican  admitted they could not finish their budget work.
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Republicans battled Democrats last night for renewed control of the the US Senate and House of Representatives. Republicans captured Democratic seats in Georgia and South Carolina last
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A $388 billion government-wide spending bill, passed by Congress on Saturday, was stranded on Capitol Hill yesterday, its trip to the White House on hold as embarrassed Republicans
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Republicans enter the fall campaign with their control of the House in jeopardy and the possibility of major Senate losses.