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Senate Approves Budget 55-43

post from Obama HQ on 02 April 2009 11:51:39 PM. © Obama HQ

The Senate just passed their version of the fiscal year 21010 budget by a vote of 55-43.

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House Approves the Budget 233-196

post from Obama HQ on 02 April 2009 08:05:19 PM. © Obama HQ

The House of Representatives has passed the fiscal year 2010 budget by a vote of 233 to 196.

Following the vote, President Obama released the following statement:

“Tonight, the House of Representatives took another step toward rebuilding our struggling economy. This budget resolution embraces our most fundamental priorities: an energy plan that will end our dependence on foreign oil and spur a new clean energy economy; an education system that will ensure our children will be able to compete in the economy of the 21st century; and health care reform that finally confronts the back-breaking costs plaguing families, businesses and government alike. And by making hard choices and challenging the old ways of doing business, we will cut in half the budget deficit we inherited within four years. With this vote comes an obligation to pursue our efforts to go through the budget line-by-line, searching for additional savings. Like the families we serve, we must cut the things we don't need to invest in those we do.”

No Republicans voted for the resolution. The House budget resolution must still be reconciled with a Senate version, which is currently under debate.

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House Passes Obama Budget

post from Barack Oblogger on 02 April 2009 07:44:11 PM. © Barack Oblogger

Congressional Democratic House leaders passed Obama's budget today. Now on to the Senate.

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Michelle Tells London Schoolgirls They Are Future
Leaders

post from Barack Oblogger on 02 April 2009 07:06:22 PM. © Barack Oblogger

Michelle Obama visited a north London school where she shared her personal story to give the girls a sense of hope and possibility.

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U.S. Will Seek Seat on U.N. Human Rights Council

post from Barack Oblogger on 02 April 2009 03:53:58 PM. © Barack Oblogger

Calling for a "new era of engagement" in foreign policy, the U.S. will overturn Bush administration policy and will seek a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council. The official statement from the...

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House approves $3.5 trillion budget

post from Obama Blog on 02 April 2009 03:03:00 PM. © Obama Blog

The House of Representatives approved President Barack Obama's $3.6 trillion federal budget on Thursday with Republican yes votes.

The Senate is also looking like it will pass a partisan and similar $3.5 trillion budget without any Republican support.

?The American people want us to find our common ground where we can, but they did not send us here to split the difference,? House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said. ?They want real change, and we have come here to make a difference.?

The budgets will allow the expiration of Bush-era tax cuts for wealthier Americans but continue those benefiting the middle class.

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US House approves $3.45 trillion budget

Reuters - ?55 minutes ago? By Jeremy Pelofsky and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The US House of Representatives on Thursday passed a federal budget that embraces President Barack Obama's initiatives on healthcare, energy and education but leaves the government deeply in ... House Approves Budget With No Republican Support New York Times House Republicans roll out alternative budget CNN

Paul Kekai Manansala is a freelance author and blogger from Sacramento, California.

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Live Update of G20

post from Barack Oblogger on 02 April 2009 12:49:07 PM. © Barack Oblogger

The BBC has live video and text of the G20 summit.

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Protesters Rally to Oust S. Carolina Gov. Sanford

post from Barack Oblogger on 02 April 2009 12:11:08 PM. © Barack Oblogger

More than 1,000 teachers protested on the steps of the State House against South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's refusal to take the $700 million's worth of federal stimulus funds.Without the stimulus...

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Budget Debate Resumes in the Senate

From the official Senate schedule for the day:

Convenes: 10:00am
Resume consideration of S. Con. Res. 13, the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget... The "vote-a-rama" is expected to begin around 11:30am. Senators should expect a long series of roll call votes throughout the day and evening. There will be 2 minutes for debate equally divided prior to each vote. Each vote after the first vote will be 10 minutes in duration.

The Senate is expected to vote on Senator John McCain's alternative budget today, as well as a number of proposed amendments. It is in these amendments, and these votes, that a large portion of the budget battle will be fought. Senate GOP leaders have said that they will use the amendment process to try to alter the budget rather than presenting their own, official plan. Yesterday the Senate defeated a proposed Republican amendment that would have enacted a spending freeze on all non-defense discretionary spending in 2010. John McCain's suggested alternative would make deeps cuts in to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, while extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich.

If you haven't already done so, there is still time to call your representatives and let them know that you support the President's budget plan, and ask them to vote against any last minute amendments that would weaken it.

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Brits Heart Michelle

Our talented, attractive, and down-to-earth First Lady is a hit overseas.Remember the days when no one liked the U.S.?Could you have imagined the U.S. President and his First Lady receiving such...

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