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March 10, 2007
Text of a Letter from the President to the Speaker of the House of Representatives
White House News
March 9, 2007
Dear Madam Speaker:
I ask the Congress to consider the enclosed FY 2007 request to cancel $3.1 billion of funding from lower-priority Federal programs and excess funds. This request would offset fully the funds needed to address the $3.1 billion FY 2007 funding shortfall for the Department of Defense to implement the recommendations of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission. The proposed cancellations would affect the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, the Interior, and Transportation, as well as the Corps of Engineers.
The details of this request are set forth in the enclosed letter from the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
Sincerely,
GEORGE W. BUSH
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Spain remembers victims of train bombings
Published: 03.11.07, 12:55 / Israel News
On Sunday Spain remembered the victims of the Madrid train bombings with a towering glass monument bearing messages of condolence written in the days after the attacks three years ago.
Marking the anniversary, King Juan Carlos, Queen Sofia and senior government officials were to preside over the ceremony outside the Atocha rail station, one of four targets in the string of 10 backpack bombs that ripped apart morning rush-hour commuter trains on March 11, 2004. The bombings, Europe's worst terrorist attack blamed on Islamic extremists, killed 191 people and wounded more than1,800 people. (AP)