WASHINGTON (AP) — A once bipartisan bill to fund the government is limping out of Congress, dismissed by the White House as a vestige of the Bush administration and derided by Republicans as an example of the Democrats’ reckless spending. The Senate was scheduled to vote Tuesday and send the $410 billion bill chocked full of lawmakers’ pet projects and significant increases in food aid for the poor, energy research and other programs to President Barack Obama. The bill was supposed to have been completed last October.–Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected]
Senate ready to clear huge spending bill
By The Associated Press
March 10, 2009