Democrats unveil &#36;463.5B spending bill
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Democrats say they are making the best of a bad situation as they bring to the House floor a massive bill cobbling together $463.5 billion in unfinished budget business.
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Sen. John Kerry's economic plans would drive up budget deficits while boosting spending by &#36;3.5 trillion, Senate Republicans said Wednesday in a report made available hours before the final presidential debate and disputed by the Kerry campaign.
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Democrats controlling the Senate are pushing through a huge spending bill funding 13 Cabinet agencies as they wrap up the unfinished budget mess inherited from Republicans.
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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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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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Spending by contestants and supporters in the U.S. elections this year will be nearly &#36;4 billion, the highest ever, a study released on Thursday said.
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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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WASHINGTON -- Democrats seeking votes for their Iraq-withdrawal plan have stuffed a war funding bill with billions of dollars for homeland security, healthcare, farms, New Orleans levees, home heating, and other causes.
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A divided Senate approved an &#36;800 billion increase in the federal debt limit Wednesday, a major boost in borrowing that Sen. John Kerry and other Democrats blamed on the fiscal policies of President Bush.
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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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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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Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced a bill on Friday that would more than double taxes on the pay of managers of private equity funds, hedge funds and other investment partnerships.
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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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Democratic leaders in Congress on Friday sent President Bush a veto-proof bill to authorize spending $23 billion in water projects, having waited more than a month to request his signature on a measure he has threatened to veto.
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citanon writes &quot; The Washington Post reports that House Majority Leader Tom Delay has delivered, via the omnibus spending bill passed Nov. 20, the President&#39;s full budgetary request of $16.2 billion dollars
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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 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.