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Analysis: Economy tethers Bush budget
Feb 5 2007 9:59PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - One major unmentioned entry in President Bush's new budget is luck. Luck that the economy keeps growing, that corporate profits remain robust, that inflation stays tame and that foreigners keep lending the U.S. money. Otherwise, the numbers don't add up.
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Bush budget cements expiring tax cuts
Feb 5 2007 9:57PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush asked Congress on Monday to slash taxes by $1.9 trillion over the next decade, cementing his first-term tax cuts while changing the way health insurance is taxed.
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Bush budget projects declining war costs
Feb 5 2007 9:57PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush's proposed budget for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan would drop to a combined $141.7 billion next year from $163.4 billion this year, and it assumes that the thousands of extra troops Bush is now sending to Iraq will be back by the end of September, officials said Monday.
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Health industry cool to Bush budget cuts
Feb 5 2007 9:56PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Health care providers would see their reimbursement rates from the federal government go up less in coming years when they care for the elderly, poor and disabled under President Bush's budget.
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News media cheer ruling on Libby tapes
Feb 5 2007 9:55PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - News organizations praised a judge's decision Monday to release tapes of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's grand jury testimony, saying it would open a window into court proceedings.
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Fitzgerald targets Cheney in Libby tapes
Feb 5 2007 9:55PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, in tapes played Monday in the CIA leak trial, pressed Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff on whether Cheney had directed him to leak the identity of a CIA operative to reporters.
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Bush budget pinches domestic spending
Feb 5 2007 9:55PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush unveiled a $2.9 trillion budget Monday that rewards the Pentagon with a record $50 billion budget hike but pinches programs cherished by Democrats, including health research and heating subsidies for the poor.
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Bush budget pinches domestic spending
Feb 5 2007 9:55PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush unveiled a $2.9 trillion budget Monday that rewards the Pentagon with a record $50 billion budget hike but pinches programs cherished by Democrats, including health research and heating subsidies for the poor.
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Bush budget pinches domestic spending
Feb 5 2007 9:55PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush unveiled a $2.9 trillion budget Monday that rewards the Pentagon with a record $50 billion budget hike but pinches programs cherished by Democrats, including health research and heating subsidies for the poor.
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U.S. plans NYC flight restrictions
Feb 5 2007 5:11PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Flight restrictions imposed around Manhattan after New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle crashed his single-engine plane into an apartment tower will be made permanent, government documents indicate.
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Bush budget trims health care funds
Feb 5 2007 1:22PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Health care providers would get smaller pay increases when caring for the elderly, poor and disabled under President Bush's budget plan submitted to Congress on Monday.
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Bush budget trims health care funds
Feb 5 2007 1:22PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Health care providers would get smaller pay increases when caring for the elderly, poor and disabled under President Bush's budget plan submitted to Congress on Monday.
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Bush budget trims health care funds
Feb 5 2007 1:22PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Health care providers would get smaller pay increases when caring for the elderly, poor and disabled under President Bush's budget plan submitted to Congress on Monday.
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Bush: Iraq understands need for security
Feb 5 2007 11:37AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush said Monday that anxiety about security in Baghdad is a not a bad thing because it means the Iraqi government understands it has the responsibility to protect its people.
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