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As usual, Congress failed to pass its annual appropriations bills on time.(The Week)(Brief article)

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As usual, Congress failed to pass its annual appropriations bills on time. Instead, it rolled up all of its overdue work into what's known as an "omnibus spending bill." This one, a 1,130-page, $410 billion monstrosity, increased domestic spending by 8 percent over last year and contained more than 8,000 earmarks. (Obama shrugged off his ...

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