Senate to move on &#36;464B spending bill
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Democrats won a key test vote Tuesday as the Senate prepares to send a massive $464 billion catchall pending bill to President Bush's desk.
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Description: The Senate on Friday scrambled to finish work on the biggest revision of corporate tax codes Congress has considered since 1986.
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Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, confers with Paul Grove, right, a staffer for the Subcommittee for Foreign Operations, during a meeting on the end of the year spending bill on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Nov.
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The 58-41 roll call by which the Senate voted to block action on a measure to add more than $40 billion in checks for the elderly, disabled veterans, the jobless and businesses to a bill for stimulating the economy.
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The 80-14 roll call Thursday by which the Senate passed an Iraq war spending bill.
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The argument in the Senate today seems likely to focus on potential changes to the bill, rather than on its overall fate.
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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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WASHINGTON - The Senate resolved a dispute delaying passage of a sweeping corporate tax bill and two spending bills for disaster relief and homeland security last night, clearing the way for senators to adjourn today to hit the campaign trail.
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House and Senate negotiators have tucked a potentially far-reaching anti-abortion provision into a $388 billion must-pass spending bill.
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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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U.S. lawmakers struck a deal late on Friday on a &#36;388 billion package of government funding for the current fiscal year after days of battling over foreign aid, nuclear waste, milk subsidies and overtime.
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The Senate pressed ahead Tuesday with a $106 billion transportation and housing bill rejecting President Bush's proposed cuts to Amtrak, housing programs and community development projects.
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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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WASHINGTON - The Senate on Monday prepared to pass three substantial bills - spending for disaster relief and homeland security and a corporate tax bill two years in the making - freeing lawmakers to leave Washington for the campaign trail.    Passage of the three bills, already approved by the House, comes only after the concerns of several Democrats threatening to filibuster were assuaged and requiring senators to meet in a rare weekend session and on the Columbus Day holiday...
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The Senate neared approval of an &#36;800 billion increase in the nation's debt limit on Wednesday, a major boost in federal borrowing that Sen. John Kerry and other Democrats blamed on the fiscal policies of President Bush.
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The House is expected to approve a measure Thursday that fully funds the president's $96 billion request but does not set a deadline for troop withdrawal.
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Senate leaders announced an agreement this evening to put a comprehensive immigration bill back on track for further debate and possible passage.