Congress Shifts Billions From Military to Domestic

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WASHINGTON - Congress is switching billions of dollars from President Bush's military and foreign aid budgets to popular domestic programs he wanted to cut or eliminate.

Just six weeks ago the House and Senate passed a budget plan that mostly mirrored Bush's, forecasting cuts averaging 1 percent from domestic agencies, including the Energy, Education and Agriculture departments.

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Congress Shifts Billions From Military to Domestic

But the Capitol Hill spending barons who are putting the budget blueprint into law, through 11 appropriations bills, are pulling out old tricks to squeeze money from the pres...

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