District Achieves Over $300 Million Budget Surplus
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The District government has achieved a budget surplus of more than $300 million for the third year in a row, thanks to higher-than-expected revenues and lower-than-expected spending last year, city officials announced this morning.
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President Bush signed a bill Monday giving the Department of Homeland Security about &#36;33 billion for the budget year that began Oct. 1.
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A must-pass bill covering about one-sixth of the federal budget swept through the House on Wednesday. A sizable chunk of Republicans joined virtually all Democrats in approving spending increases for education, veterans and the AIDS battle in Africa.
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Public finances showed the biggest-ever monthly surplus for the month of January.
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By Mark Guydish, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times Leader  Sep. 22--UNION TWP. -- Northwest Area High School students will have access to more computers, and teachers will have more high-tech "smart boards," thanks to a $67,000 state grant.
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Republicans whisked a &#36;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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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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The House unanimously signed off Monday on a $2.9 billion state spending plan for Louisiana's public schools, submitted by the state education board.  House Concurrent Resolution 208, the spending plan for the 2007- 08 school year, would increase public school spending by $209 million.
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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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Fairfax County Executive Anthony H. Griffin  proposed a $3.3 billion budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1. Highlights:
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President Bush burned through more than half of his &#36;75 million government grant to cover his general-election campaign costs in September, leaving him with just under &#36;37 million left for the final month before the Nov. 2 election.
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The new reserves come on top of Â£300 million earmarked last year to pay compensation for failing endowment policies and mis-sold precipice bonds.
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PRAGUE- The Czech Republic showed a state budget surplus of Kc3.5bn in January after a surplus of Kc7.3bn a year ago, the Finance Ministry said.
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The House of Representatives on Saturday passed a &#36;32 billion bill funding homeland security programs this year after days of political fighting over the measure.
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Fairfax County will open the school year with about $3 million less in federal education funding tied to poverty, while Montgomery County -- the school system to which it is often compared -- will get about $2.5 million more than last ...
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The Republican committee working to retain GOP control of the House has $36 million in the bank going into the final stretch of the congressional campaign.
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The Indiana Department of Natural Resources has awarded the Vanderburgh County Soil and Water Conservation District a $30,000 Lake and River Enhancement grant for conservation and water quality enhancement projects.