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Article: Budget Battle Moves to Senate.(Brief Article)
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- Nation's Cities Weekly
- Article date:
- April 10, 2000
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As the Weekly went to press, the Senate continued floor debate on its Budget Resolution for 2001 while the Republicans continued to discuss their differences over how to hold spending down, and the Democrats tried to force a shift in the budget resolution's focus from tax cuts to deficit reduction, a Medicare prescription drug benefit and priority discretionary programs.
Budget hawk Senator Phil Gramm (R-Tx.) managed to attach provisions to the resolution that require points of order with 60 votes before appropriators can use advanced appropriations and emergency spending designations to reach desired funding levels, and to strengthen the barrier between defense ...