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In an excerpt from the U.S. Senate, members debated an amendment to the fiscal year 1997 budget legislation offered by the so-called Senate Centrist Coalition. The bipartisan group has creat…

White House officials and senators talked separately with reporters about the status of federal budget negotiations.

Republican and Democratic Senators who agree on the need to balance the budget in seven years using CBO economic projections. They briefed reporters on their proposal which would meet these …

Mr. Panetta was on Capitol Hill to meet with a bipartisan group of lawmakers to talk about budget issues. Many government agencies will be closed Monday because of the breakdown in federal b…

A bipartisan group of 12 senators announced a new proposal for balancing the federal budget in seven years. They worked to agree on numbers from the Congressional Budget Office which include…

U.S. Senate works on the Highway Conference Report and the Reconciliation bill.

Senate Rules & Administration Committee members heard testimony from the chairman and ranking member of each standing committee to examine Senate committees' operating funds.

The Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee heard testimony from staff members on the Clinton administration’s budget bill during its conference to reconcile the Hosu…

Senator Chafee, a member of the budget conference committee and the Senate Finance Committee, discussed the budget reconciliation conference. The conference will meet later today to begin wo…

In an excerpt from a session of the Senate, members debated the Clinton administration’s economic program legislation, the budget reconciliation act. The $500 billion plan intended to decrea…

The committee considered spending reductions and revenue increases to meet reconciliation expenditures, setting forth the congressional budget for the United States government for fiscal yea…