Posted on 11/02/2001 8:18:00 AM PST by fod
House Approves $32.8B Spending Bill
AP Headlines
By Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- The House approved a $32.8 billion measure on Wednesday that finances the Treasury Department and other agencies and includes big increases for the Internal Revenue Service.
The measure, approved by 339-85, needs only Senate approval before it can move to the White House for President Bush's expected signature.
The bill, for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1, would provide $2 billion more than last year and $400 million more than Bush requested. Many of this year's spending bills are receiving extra money under a budget deal Bush and Congress worked out last month.
The IRS would get $9.4 billion, compared with $8.9 billion last year, with extra money for tax law enforcement and to modernize equipment. Other increases would go to the Customs Service and several drug law enforcement programs.
The measure also would continue existing law that forbids federal employees' health insurance from covering abortion, but also requires most of their health plans provide coverage for many prescription contraceptives.
Federal civilian employees would get pay raises of 4.6 percent.
The measure also opens the door for members of Congress to get $4,900 pay raises next year to $150,000. Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., has promised to try blocking the increase sometime before Congress adjourns this year. His effort is considered a long shot.
Largesse?
nah...
DISMANTLE THE CIVIL SERVICE NOW! SAVE BILLIONS IN TAXES! Take all the federal lawyers, judges, senior service executives, union parasites and elected official's wives, friends, kids, other family members, interns and the like and send them packing to a real world job.
This post, IMO, sums up one of FR's reason for being, but who the hell cares?
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We are all McCainacs Now
Bush and Gillmore are in for a wake-up call when they lose both Governor's races next week.
We haven't been ourselves lately what with the war and all. On balance though I would like to see us hit the statehouses in droves and start putting some light on our local politicians. Methinks there is the corruption supporting this federal runaway train. Repeal the seventeenth I say!
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