LAT: (40 Dem., 14 Rep.) Senators Protest Bush Cuts to Neighborhood Program

Senators Protest Bush Cuts to Neighborhood Program
A bipartisan group of 55 calls block grants the centerpiece in federal aid to low-income areas.

By Richard Simon, Times Staff Writer


WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of 55 senators Friday spelled out its opposition to President Bush's proposed cuts to a neighborhood improvement program, apparently dooming one of the White House's key deficit-reduction targets.

The letter from the lawmakers also underscored the fight Bush faces in persuading even members of his own party to accept some of the cost-cutting measures in his budget proposal for the new fiscal year.

Fourteen of the Senate's Republicans — including usually loyal Bush allies — joined 40 Democrats and one independent in expressing opposition to any cut to the Department of Housing and Urban Development's $4.7-billion community development block grant program.

The letter came as the Congressional Budget Office estimated Friday that Bush's policies as outlined in his 2006 budget would add $1.6 trillion to the federal deficit over the next 10 years....


http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-budget5mar05,0,579863.story?coll=la-home-nation

admonishments....oh yeah, I've got Santorum AND Specter...no need to look up anything. Come on 2006!

Probably not Feingold- he's at his mom's funeral.

That leaves four.

:crazy: LOONY TUNES :crazy:

"Smaller government" is what you're all about, right? :puke: