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• Senate passes $1.1 trillion spending bill

  —Delusional Duck

  The Senate on Sunday passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill with increased budgets for vast areas of the federal government including health, education, law enforcement and veterans’ programs. The 1,000-page-plus package, one of the last essential chores of Congress this year, passed 57-35 and now goes to President Obama for his [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 7:54am EST
  

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• Even National Democrats are Attacking O’Malley

  —OMalleyWatch.com

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  The former head of the Democratic Governor’s Association, Governor Brian Schweitzer, made a parting swipe at Governor Martin O’Malley, a fellow Democrat, as he stepped down of head of that group. In a statement to Stateline, the Governor of Montana said ‘Voters want “people who can balance budgets – not [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 7:43am EST
  by Martin Watcher

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• Tight budgets mean some prisoners go light on meals

  —Delusional Duck

  The inmates at Plainfield Correctional Facility east of Indianapolis can’t be accused of getting a free lunch. Or any lunch at all. At least on some days. The medium-security prison has eliminated lunch on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays — part of a pilot program that could go statewide. The Indiana Department [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 7:47am EST
  

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• County Employees at Risk

  —Maryland Politics Watch

  The awful condition of the state budget has attracted a lot of attention in recent months. But the county budgets are not doing much better. And one constituency is going to pay the price as much or more than anyone: county employees.
  
  Below are the salary increases granted by [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 2:00pm EST
  

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• Obama eyes spending freeze to tackle deficits

  —Delusional Duck

  Record imbalance could endanger economy, Democrats’ political prospects The Obama administration has alerted domestic agencies to plan for a freeze or even a 5 percent cut in their budgets, part of an election-year push to rein in record deficits that threaten the economy and Democrats’ political prospects next fall. China, the [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 6:22pm EST
  

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