Omnibus appropriations bill highlights
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The $516 billion omnibus spending bill before Congress blends the budgets of 14 Cabinet departments with multiple policy changes. Highlights of the legislation include:
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Highlights of last-minute legislation, including tax and trade provisions, that Congress acted on Friday:
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The House on Thursday passed a spending bill that covers the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education and related agencies, for the budget year beginning Oct. 1. The measure contains $152 billion for social programs including special education, community health centers, Head Start and health research. The legislation faces a veto from President Bush, who complains that Democratic add-ons have made it too expensive:
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The 81-15 roll call Wednesday by which the Senate voted to pass a $464 billion spending bill.
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Congress can move with amazing speed when it wants to. Trouble is, Congress doesn&#39;t always want to -- as with the highway bill that&#39;s been delayed for two years and the 12 spending bills it is supposed to pass by Oct. 1, but won&#39;t.
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In scuttling major intelligence legislation that he, the president and most lawmakers supported, Speaker J. Dennis Hastert last week enunciated a policy in which Congress will pass bills
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Lawmakers and White House budget bargainers whittled their differences to a handful, fueling hopes Congress can speed an overdue $388 billion bill to President Bush that finances most federal agencies.
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Highlights of what Congress has done &#151; and has not done &#151; this year.
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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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Congress sent President Bush a &#36;388 billion legislative package Tuesday that covers the spending of every federal agency but the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1.
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A $388 billion government-wide spending bill, passed by Congress on Saturday, was stranded on Capitol Hill Monday.
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Congress is scrambling to pass long-delayed domestic and border security bills, as Republicans and the Democrats try to control the issues.
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Here are details of President Bush's budget for the major federal agencies.
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The congressional spending season began with a blowup over earmarks in the House yesterday, as the first bill to reach a vote prompted a White House veto threat and scores of amendments from Republicans furious with Democrats' handling of pet-project spending in the measures.
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The House, in a bipartisan 344-51 vote, approved a $388 billion spending bill funding much of the federal government. The figure is 2 percent less than the same programs got last year.
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By The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 2--THE LOCAL match for federal funding of the Arkansas Valley Conduit is included in legislation introduced this week by State Sen. Jim Isgar, D-Hesperus.
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Senate Democrats unveiled a spending blueprint yesterday that envisions a massive expansion of the nation's health-insurance program for children, as well as billions of additional dollars for other domestic priorities such as public education, veterans' health care and local police.