Senate Approves Budget Deal, Walking Back Previous Attempts to Reduce Spending
64-36
Spend-happy Republicans "hostile" to conservatives
Paving the way for it to pass with a simple majority
Not like they couldn't afford paying in full
Introduced a bill with Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.)
Many unhappy about lack of unemployment insurance extension
Feds will keep spending more than they collect in revenue
Right, while Congress is a bastion of it?
"We need to get this off the table so we can go forward"
Says they're "using the American people for their own goals"
Need to be cutting more not less
Increasing the chance a stopgap spending bill will be needed to keep government going after January 15
State ordered to redo funding plan before spending any state bond money
State not allowed to spend bond money until the plan comes into compliance with authorizing ballot initiative
Defense budgets are out of control. Adding another war won't help.
Yup, those Social Security numbers sure have been handy, eh?
Three years after launch of foreclosure assistance program, only 22 percent of money has been distributed
"A painfully slow and opaque process," you say?