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kpete

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Sun May 20, 2012, 12:11 PM May 2012

WHAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY STANDS FOR TODAY—



The GOP House passed a defense budget Friday that exceeds the deal cut by Congress and President Barack Obama last summer, and that would have to be paid for with cash taken from poverty programs, health care and the federal workforce. The National Defense Authorization Act permits $642 billion in defense spending next year. The White House has threatened to veto the bill, which passed 299 to 120, citing more than 30 changes to the budget the administration was seeking. But the measure also adds $8 billion more than called for in the Budget Control Act that Congress agreed to last summer in exchange for raising the nation’s debt limit. – HuffPo

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/18/defense-budget-passed_n_1527752.html?ref=politics
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