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Published 3/10/2009 by CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart at CNN Political Ticker
The Senate is taking up a bill to fund the government through the end of the fiscal year.
(CNN) — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid expressed confidence Tuesday that the Senate would be able to pass an overdue bill that includes hundreds of billions of dollars in spending and thousands of earmarks — pet projects of [...]
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