Cheney Breaks Senate Tie on Spending Cuts

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Republican-controlled Senate passed legislation to cut federal deficits by $39.7 billion on Wednesday by the narrowest of margins, 51-50, with Vice President Dick Cheney casting the deciding vote.

The measure, the product of a year's labors by the White House and the GOP in Congress, imposes the first restraints in nearly a decade in federal benefit programs such as Medicaid, Medicare and student loans.

"This is the one vote you'll have this year to reduce the rate of growth of the federal government," said Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, in a final plea for passage.

But Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada countered that the GOP was advancing "an ideologically driven, extreme, radical budget. It caters to lobbyists and an elite group of ultraconservative ideologues here in Washington, all at the expense of middle class Americans," he said.......

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That Bastard!!! At least everyone is in the same boat - everyone gets a cut. Poor get services cut, middle class gets eduction cut, & rich get taxes cut.

Thanks, Gregg, for making sure that the poor, and ONLY the poor, are the target of your "conservative family values."

eight month's worth of Iraq occupation. Someone else can figure out the percentage of "Bush' tax cut for this year.

with homeless services. Their program is disappearing as a result of this.

doing the right thing and not voting with the other repugs.