Senate Approves $3 Trillion Budget Plan
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The Senate yesterday approved a $3 trillion budget blueprint that would authorize a small increase for domestic priorities and spare millions of households from an unpopular tax. But it delays most major budget decisions until after the election.
On a party-line vote of 48 to 45, the Senate agreed to increase spending on government programs in the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1 by about $20 billion beyond President Bush's request. The nonbinding budget plan also assumes that Congress will prevent the unpopular alternative minimum tax, or AMT, from affecting 20 million more families next April.
If the House approves the measure today, as expected, it will mark the first time since 2000 that Congress has managed to agree on a spending plan in an election year.
-- Lori Montgomery
