AP - The Senate rejected calls from both parties’ presidential candidates to take an election-year break from pork-barrel spending as a Democratic-run Congress passed budget plans that would torpedo hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts won by President Bush.
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Reuters - The U.S. Senate on Friday passed a
fiscal 2009 budget plan, similar to one passed by the House of
Representatives, that claims to erase chronic deficits by 2012
and spends more on domestic programs than President George W.
Bush wanted.
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AP - The 71-29 roll call by which the Senate on Thursday rejected a proposed one-year ban on lawmakers’ home-state pet projects.
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