Senate Dems reverse Bush's cuts to education, health

[babylonsister]

Senate reverses Bush's cuts to education, health

By ANDREW TAYLOR

WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats on Tuesday reversed President Bush's cuts to education, health research and grants to local communities as they gird for Bush's first-ever veto of a regular appropriations bill.

By a 75-19 vote, the Senate gave bipartisan approval to a huge health and education spending bill that will likely be the first of the fiscal 2008 spending bills Democrats will ship to the White House to start a veto battle involving the budget for almost every domestic agency.

It promises to be a protracted battle, and Bush has a decided advantage, but Democrats have seized on the massive health and education measure as the best measure with which to challenge Bush and his GOP allies in Congress.

The measure totals over $600 billion and reverses a raft of cuts sought by Bush to health research, special education and funding for grants to community groups that help the poor, among others.

The confrontation with Bush over domestic programs — many of which are also popular with Republicans, as demonstrated by the margin of passage — will come on the heels of the bruising veto battle over a children's health insurance bill.

Programs funded by the health and education bill affect schoolchildren, workers, the poor and disabled, the unemployed and those with special needs or drug and alcohol problems, among others.

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[TwilightGardener]

1. I actually thought this was a pretty big deal. Got a lot of Repubs on board, including

ones who are big fiscal conservatives--poking Bush right in the eye.

[babylonsister]

3. I do, too. I would love to give credit where it's due daily. This is a

anomaly but I wish it wasn't.

[OKNancy]

2. Those traitors! They are no better that Bush..

Oh... oops, that was yesterday.

[Raffi Ella]

4. That's a bit of good news.

Thanks for posting. K&R.