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Senate appropriations chief predicts budget stalemate

March 3, 2004 With GOP leaders in both chambers heading toward supporting a freeze in non-defense, non-homeland security discretionary spending, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, Tuesday predicted a budgetary stalemate, at least on the domestic side of the ledger, this year. "I think, in all probability, we're probably not going to ...

House budget chair seeks to freeze domestic spending

March 2, 2004 House Budget Committee Chairman Jim Nussle, R-Iowa, announced Tuesday that his fiscal 2005 budget resolution, to be marked up next Wednesday, would freeze non-defense and non-homeland security discretionary spending at last year's levels. He said spending for defense and homeland security would be trimmed 0.5 percent from President Bush's request. ...