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Dozens of Trade-Offs in $1.1 Trillion Budget Bill (in other words, taxpayers are screwed ... again)
ABC News ^ | January 13, 2014 | Andrew Taylor

Posted on 01/14/2014 1:52:44 AM PST by Zakeet

The sales job is on for a bipartisan $1.1 trillion spending bill that would pay for the operations of government through October and finally put to rest the bitter budget battles of last year.

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The GOP-led House is slated to pass the 1,582-page bill Wednesday, though many tea party conservatives are sure to oppose it.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: budget; congress; economy; spending

Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski, Rat-Md: "This agreement shows the American people that we can compromise, and that we can govern ... it puts an end to shutdown, slowdown, slamdown politics" ... and that pretty much tells you all you need to know.

1 posted on 01/14/2014 1:52:44 AM PST by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

RINOs and RATs in lock step. One Party System for America.


2 posted on 01/14/2014 2:33:26 AM PST by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: broken_arrow1

Yeah, they want to get passed this little bump in the road so Bonehead can steam roll through immigration deform. I hate that SOB almost as much as I hate Obama.


3 posted on 01/14/2014 2:56:09 AM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: Zakeet

My dad used to call women like that.....pumpkins with legs. haaaaaaaaaaaarrrr!


4 posted on 01/14/2014 6:59:02 AM PST by sheana
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To: Zakeet

Wait till the insurance company subsidies (read: bailouts) are included. $1.1T will be small potatoes.


5 posted on 01/14/2014 7:00:42 AM PST by Black Agnes
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To: Zakeet

No mentally unsound person should ever be allowed a position of authority.


6 posted on 01/14/2014 7:04:41 AM PST by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: Zakeet

Mark Levin said last night that a republican congressman in the know said that Obama insisted on no changes to the IRS in policies that included harassing the Tea Party. He said if that was in the budget there would be shutdown.


7 posted on 01/16/2014 6:10:51 AM PST by AU72
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