Report: Bush Spent Nearly &#36;46M in July
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A fresh wave of ads pushed President Bush's spending to nearly &#36;46 million for July, the Republican's highest level since he launched the first ad blitz of his re-election campaign in March, a campaign finance report filed Friday shows.
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Construction spending sprang back to life in July, rising to the highest level on record, the government reported Wednesday.
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CRAWFORD, Texas  - President Bush, under pressure  over the pace and size of American aid to Asian tsunami  victims, dramatically raised U.S. assistance to the region on  Friday to $350 million from $35 million.
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The team raising money for next week's festivities marking President Bush's inauguration has taken in &#36;25.5 million, mostly in donations from corporations, it reported Friday.
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Investor's Business Daily - Despite a sagging stock market, investors put &#36;9.46 billion into stock mutual funds in July.
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President Bush and John Kerry have accepted &#36;75 million each in government financing for their campaigns for the White House but tens of millions more will be spent by the parties and partisan interest groups to influence the race.
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A San Diego sports marketer claims in a new book that he gave former Southern California running back Reggie Bush nearly $300,000 in cash while Bush still was in college.
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The 2004 US presidential election is set to smash all spending records according to an independent study, which estimates that more than a billion dollars will be spent on the race for the White House by election day.
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In the most expensive presidential contest in the nation's history, John F. Kerry and his Democratic supporters nearly matched President Bush and the Republicans, who outspent them by just &#36;60 million, &#36;1.14 billion to &#36;1.08 billion.
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President Bush, Sen. John Kerry and their political parties are spending nearly &#36;40 million on TV ads in the final week of the presidential campaign as they adjust their strategies in a shrinking battleground.
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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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Economic assumptions from President Bush's proposed 2008 budget:
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It will take President Bush less than a minute to take the oath of office next Thursday, but before the inaugural events are over some &#36;40 million may be spent on parades, parties and pyrotechnics.
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President Bush's 2008 budget request includes $624.6 billion in defense spending and marks the first time he has offered an estimate of how much the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will cost a year in advance.
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Spending by presidential and congressional candidates and the national party committees that support them already tops &#36;1 billion for the 2004 election cycle, with more than two months of campaigning to go.
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Facts and figures on political action committee spending in the presidential race since Labor Day:
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It has a been a difficult few years for earmarks, but the year-end budget that Congress just sent to President Bush still contained almost 9,000 of them.