Senate budget panel approves spending curbs
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In an election-year bid to polish their credentials as fiscal conservatives in an election year, Senate Republicans on Tuesday advanced a bill designed to force cuts in the spiraling growth of federal benefit programs while also reviving the line-item veto.
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The Senate voted Tuesday to approve a revised defense bill authorizing a 3.5 percent pay raise for troops while sidestepping a veto showdown with President Bush.
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A US Senate panel on Tuesday backed a $94 billion 2005 spending bill which included an extra $800 million to fund space projects next year.
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The Senate resolved a dispute late Sunday delaying passage of a sweeping corporate tax bill and two spending bills for disaster relief and homeland security, clearing the
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The Congress passed a nearly $152  billion plan to stave off an election-year recession by sending  government rebate checks to millions of Americans and providing  business tax incentives to boost spending.
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The U.S. Senate Finance Committee approved a $157 billion economic stimulus package on Wednesday that offers smaller tax rebates to more people than a plan passed by the U.S. House of Representatives.
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WASHINGTON - Republicans whisked a $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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Lawmakers Saturday approved a $447 billion 2005 defense spending bill as Congress pushed forward with final actions before adjourning for the elections.
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The Senate cleared a path for a bill to hand out about $140 billion in corporate tax breaks, but it was blocked from a final vote by a fight over a provision aimed at helping reserve soldiers on active duty in Iraq.
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The Senate Finance Committee  approved a $157 billion economic stimulus package on Wednesday  that offers smaller tax rebates to more people than a plan  passed by the House of Representatives.
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WASHINGTON -- Congress on Thursday cleared for President Bush must-pass bills to prevent a government shutdown and extend the Treasury Department's ability to finance the budget deficit.
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A U.S. Senate panel on Tuesday backed a &#36;94 billion 2005 spending bill which included an extra &#36;800 million to fund space projects next year.
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The U.S. Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday approved a $157 billion economic stimulus package that offers smaller tax rebates to more people than a plan passed by the U.S. House of Representatives.
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OVERVIEW: In his 2006 budget request of some &#36;2.5 trillion going to Congress on Monday, President Bush will propose holding down growth in defense spending and cutting dollars for some domestic programs to cope with large deficits.
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The Democratic-controlled Senate Thursday began debating a huge spending bill covering about one-sixth of the federal budget as the final step in completing the unfinished budget business inherited from Republicans.
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The Senate on Tuesday approved sweeping legislation to keep the government operating through September 2008 and handed President George W. Bush a victory by including additional Iraq war funds without conditions for ending the combat.
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The Federal Election Commission on Wednesday released a useful chart that details spending activity in the 2006 Senate campaign Ã¢ÂÂ which Democrats concluded with a net gain of the six seats they needed to garner a 51-49 working majority in the current 110th Congress.