GOP leaders reach deal on budget - Will VOTE tonight while Chimp is on?

Pushing for a vote "before the evening is out"...
READ THE DETAILS FOLKS.

GOP leaders reach tentative deal on budget
By Mary Dalrymple, Associated Press Writer | April 28, 2005

WASHINGTON -- Top congressional Republicans reported agreement Thursday on a budget that envisions $10 billion in Medicaid reductions over the next five years and at least $70 billion in tax cuts.

The plan could also open the way to oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Congressional officials said the agreement envisions spending of about $2.6 trillion for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, with a deficit of $382 billion.

Republican officials said the plan relies on savings from farm, student loan and pension programs to achieve President Bush's goal of cutting deficits in half over five years.

House and Senate GOP leaders said they would push for a vote later in the day. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., expressed optimism that he had enough votes to pass the budget in the Senate.


http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/04/28/gop_leaders_reach_tentative_deal_on_budget

Dems haven't even been consulted on this atrocity......

It isn't a deal , it's a RAPE

again, they were given little or no time to actually read it!

http://www.military.com/Content/Printer_Friendly_Version/1,11491,,00.html?str_filename=FL%5Farmy%5F042805&passfile=FL%5Farmy%5F042805&page_url=%2FNewsContent%2F0%2C13319%2CFL%5Farmy%5F042805%2C00%2Ehtml

but, at least there are tax cuts...

Dubya's "war on terror," while some of our soldiers still lack the armor they need for their humvees and other vehicles.

The country remains in shambles while it will cost many billions to replace all the military hardware that has already been destroyed in Iraq! What a mess!

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/28/politics/28cnd-budget.html?hp&ex=1114747200&en=87069b0a07490ecf&ei=5094&partner=homepage

-Agreement or not, there was by no means unanimous enthusiasm for the budget. "If you like deficits, you're going to love this budget," Senator Kent Conrad of North Dakota, senior Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee, said on Wednesday, as the likely outlines of the agreement were emerging.

-"It looks more to me like a posture committee than a conference committee at this point," said Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, who is on the conference panel. She, like other Democrats on the committee, said they had been reduced to following developments of the negotiations in the news media.

One Democrat, Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, said on Wednesday that the negotiators had decided to strip a $5.4 billion provision, passed by the Senate with bipartisan support, that would have helped middle-class families pay for college.

"The deal was struck long before this morning's photo-op conference negotiation," Mr. Kennedy, the chief sponsor of the provision, said in a statement. "Before today and behind closed doors, the Republicans decided to cut education."