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NASA receives full funding for moon-Mars effort
Generous 2006 appropriation comes with warning to shape up financial management.
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House, Senate leaders plot strategy for finishing spending bills
House speaker is under pressure from conservatives to push across-the-board spending cuts at agencies.
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Spending bill provision would make transfers of e-gov funds easier
Transportation-Treasury language would override language in other 2006 appropriations bills.
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Cuts to social programs upset key appropriators
Negotiators near agreement on spending bills, but $1.4 billion in cuts to Labor, Education and HHS not sitting well.
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FBI's cyber division wins key backing in Congress
Senate appropriators restore $20 million in fiscal 2006 funding for the agents that agency had sought to cut.
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Forward Observer: Tortured Logic
If Sen. John McCain's anti-torture amendment fails, brutal foreign governments will be less inclined to observe the narrow firebreak between life and death when abusing U.S. prisoners.
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