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Bush the Clown!
It's so funny I'm laughing:
Bush quietly signs $373 billion spending bill Friday, January 23, 2004 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- (01-23) 16:25 PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush signed Friday a $373 billion spending bill for most federal agencies that allows him to assert he has held annually approved expenditures to just 3 percent growth for the budget year that still has eight months left in it. [Read it again --- can you believe this crap?] Bush signed the measure, which still made room for increases for education, aid to countries adopting democratic practices, the FBI and veterans health care, privately and without ceremony. "We applaud Congress for passing spending legislation that meets our highest priorities and holds the line on spending," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said. Four months after the Oct. 1 start of the government's fiscal year, the Senate had rolled over opposition Democrats and voted 65-28 Thursday for the package. The House had approved the measure in December. Financing programs from housing and job training to space and biomedical research, the bill covers 11 Cabinet departments and scores of other agencies, plus foreign aid and the District of Columbia government, by combining seven spending bills usually passed separately. Six other spending measures, including those covering the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security, were already enacted. The administration hopes the bill will provide election-year proof of Bush's imposition of budget discipline on Washington and strengthen his administration's claim that it will be able to cut federal deficits in half in five years. Last year's shortfall was a record $375 billion and this year's is expected to be about $100 billion higher. Bush plans to send lawmakers a $2.3 trillion budget for 2005 on Feb. 2. Bush has said this week that the annually approved spending in that budget would not be more than 4 percent more than the current year's. On Friday, McClellan said that to accomplish that, spending on nondefense and non-homeland security programs would be limited to an average of 1 percent growth. Still, many conservatives -- who make up the core of Bush's political support -- were opposed to what they saw as too many home-district projects that they consider pork in the omnibus 2004 spending package. Conservatives have been increasingly critical generally of the Bush administration for burgeoning deficits and overall federal spending that has grown by 23.7 percent over his three years in office. "Obviously there's a legislative process," McClellan said Friday. "You don't get everything you want and there are other things that sometimes are put in." |
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Bush the Clown!
And, during clinton's presidency, spending increased by about 4%.
During Bushy's... 8%. "Bobsprit" wrote in message hlink.net... It's so funny I'm laughing: Bush quietly signs $373 billion spending bill Friday, January 23, 2004 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ---- (01-23) 16:25 PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush signed Friday a $373 billion spending bill for most federal agencies that allows him to assert he has held annually approved expenditures to just 3 percent growth for the budget year that still has eight months left in it. [Read it again --- can you believe this crap?] Bush signed the measure, which still made room for increases for education, aid to countries adopting democratic practices, the FBI and veterans health care, privately and without ceremony. "We applaud Congress for passing spending legislation that meets our highest priorities and holds the line on spending," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said. Four months after the Oct. 1 start of the government's fiscal year, the Senate had rolled over opposition Democrats and voted 65-28 Thursday for the package. The House had approved the measure in December. Financing programs from housing and job training to space and biomedical research, the bill covers 11 Cabinet departments and scores of other agencies, plus foreign aid and the District of Columbia government, by combining seven spending bills usually passed separately. Six other spending measures, including those covering the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security, were already enacted. The administration hopes the bill will provide election-year proof of Bush's imposition of budget discipline on Washington and strengthen his administration's claim that it will be able to cut federal deficits in half in five years. Last year's shortfall was a record $375 billion and this year's is expected to be about $100 billion higher. Bush plans to send lawmakers a $2.3 trillion budget for 2005 on Feb. 2. Bush has said this week that the annually approved spending in that budget would not be more than 4 percent more than the current year's. On Friday, McClellan said that to accomplish that, spending on nondefense and non-homeland security programs would be limited to an average of 1 percent growth. Still, many conservatives -- who make up the core of Bush's political support -- were opposed to what they saw as too many home-district projects that they consider pork in the omnibus 2004 spending package. Conservatives have been increasingly critical generally of the Bush administration for burgeoning deficits and overall federal spending that has grown by 23.7 percent over his three years in office. "Obviously there's a legislative process," McClellan said Friday. "You don't get everything you want and there are other things that sometimes are put in." |
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Bush the Clown!
And, during clinton's presidency, spending increased by about 4%.
During Bushy's... 8%. How about counting loss of human life under Bush and Clinton. RB |
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Bush the Clown!
Now, now. Clinton is responsible for millions of deaths... don't forgot
the stain on Monica's dress. Bushy is a piker by comparison. "Bobsprit" wrote in message ... And, during clinton's presidency, spending increased by about 4%. During Bushy's... 8%. How about counting loss of human life under Bush and Clinton. RB |
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