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$1.1 trillion spending bill clears Senate hurdle
massive year-end spending bill has cleared a key obstacle in the Senate.
By a 60-36 vote, the Senate has defeated a GOP procedural move that would have unraveled the $1.1 trillion measure. The bill bundles six spending bills into a more than 1,000-page behemoth.
The bill would finance 10 Cabinet-level agencies for the coming year and help fund the Medicare and Medicaid health care programs for the elderly and poor.
A vote to stop a Republican filibuster is scheduled for Saturday morning. Friday's vote demonstrates that Democrats will have the 60 votes needed do so.
[URL="http://townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2009/12/11/$11_trillion_spending_bill_clears_senate_hurdle"]source[/URL]
so who was it here that ask where did the trillions come from????
OK, I'm goinig to put aside the fact that your "source" is Townhall.com, which is a right-wing blog site. (You may as well be using a USMB poster as your "source".)
Instead I'll ask you this: The massive "year-end spending bill" is otherwise known as, what?
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