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  • Omnibus bill freezes spending levels

    01/29/2007 5:48:26 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 3 replies · 293+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 1/29/07 | Andrew Taylor - ap
    WASHINGTON - Pell grants for lower-income college students and efforts to combat AIDS overseas would get more money under a catchall spending bill heading to the House floor this week. Pentagon efforts to implement a 2005 round of base closings face a big budget cut, however, and hundreds of federal accounts would have their budgets frozen at last year's levels as Democrats keep their promise to live within President Bush's tight cap on domestic agency budgets. The massive $463.5 billion bill would wrap up long-overdue work on the 2007 budget year that began Oct. 1. Republicans wouldn't make tough choices...