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Article: GOP Budget Blueprint: the First Draft.(the last mintue budget settlement that took place in 1998 left many promising to avoid a repeat in 1999)(Brief Article)
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- Insight on the News
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- February 15, 1999
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Hindus have a name for the roulette wheel of births and rebirths which, depending on an individual's karma (personal acts) and dharma (adherence to religious duties), lands one either in Nirvana or stalled in an endless loop of reincarnations -- they call it samsara. Washington's version of samsara is the budget process, a nearly yearlong series of all-but-identical food fights about who is going to get what and why they deserve it.
But the bad karma of last year's budget finale, when the "emergency" spending loophole was used to bust budget caps and an election-year pork-barrel feeding frenzy ensued, already is affecting this year's, with some members of ...