Lawmakers Agree on $388 Bln Spending Bill
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U.S. lawmakers struck a deal late on  Friday on a $388 billion package of government funding for the  current fiscal year after days of battling over foreign aid,  nuclear waste, milk subsidies and overtime.
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Congress came to a final agreement Saturday night on a massive $388 billion measure funding 13 federal departments for fiscal 2005, but not without some last-minute problems for
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The White House has approved a fiscal 2008 budget request of $468.9 billion for the Pentagon, $4.7 billion more than expected last year, according to a memorandum obtained by Reuters.
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Lawmakers unveiled a $500 billion-plus catchall spending bill Sunday, reluctantly sticking within President Bush's budget but still protecting politically sensitive domestic programs from White House cuts.
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The money for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan was added to a sweeping year-end budget bill.
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The U.S. Congress on Saturday gave  final approval to a $422 billion bill for defense programs that  backs next year's round of military base closings and kills a  proposed $23.5 billion Air Force deal with Boeing Co. .
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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 House today overwhelmingly approved a $146 billion shot in the arm for the nation's ailing economy, sending a stimulus package to the Senate with a bipartisan appeal to senators not to slow the bill with significant changes.
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The House and Senate struck a deal on spending bills Wednesday in a first test of reining in deficits.
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Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, confers with Paul Grove, right, a staffer for the Subcommittee for Foreign Operations, during a meeting on the end of the year spending bill on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Nov.
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President Bush on Thursday signed a $464 billion spending bill that closes out last year's unfinished budget business but made clear he wasn't entirely happy about it.
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Congressional negotiators reached agreement yesterday on a spending package that provides a 3.5 percent raise for federal civilian employees, more than double that sought by President Bush.
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The US Senate, after a weekend of behind-the-scenes negotiations, struck a deal to allow passage of a sweeping bill to provide $136 billion (?110 billion) in corporate
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Lawmakers and White House budget bargainers whittled their differences to a handful, fueling hopes Congress can speed an overdue &#36;388 billion bill to President Bush that finances most federal agencies.
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From an Alaska land swap to tours of a Georgia barrier island, business interests bested environmentalists in battles that shaped Congress' &#36;388 billion spending bill.
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The White House said Monday it was encouraged by concessions made by Democrats over the weekend as they crafted a $500 billion-plus catchall 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.