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NATIONAL REPUBLICAN SENATORIAL COMMITTEE -- AN AGREEMENT IS REACHED From Senator George Allen, Chairman Good Day, Last night Republicans and Democrats in the Senate reached an agreement on levels of spending for committee budgets. This and more in today's NRSC Daily News... Have a great day, Court ------------------- Today's Top Stories Senate Revolves fight over Committee Funding Source: Washington Post By: Helen Dewar January 16, 2003 Article has been excerpted. Senate leaders last night reached a deal to organize the chamber's committees more than a week after the 108th Congress convened, allowing Republicans to finally wield the gavels. "After negotiating...

Bush Administration Denounces 'Quotas' By RON FOURNIER The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush opposes quotas and racial preferences, the White House said Wednesday as Democrats criticized administration plans to oppose a University of Michigan affirmative action program in court. Such policies ``do not serve to lift up our country and to help the average American,'' presidential spokesman Ari Fleischer told reporters as administration lawyers completed work on their Supreme Court brief. ``Instead, they have a tendency to divide people, to separate people who are deemed to be worthy of something and have it taken away from them not...