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(28,979 posts) Thu May 10, 2012, 11:53 PM May 2012

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House Approves $310 Billion in Cuts, but Passage in the Senate Is Very Unlikely

WASHINGTON — The House approved sweeping legislation on Thursday to cut $310 billion from the deficit over the next decade — much of it from programs for the poor — and shift some of that savings to the Pentagon to stave off automatic military spending cuts scheduled for next year.

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House Approves $310 Billion in Cuts, but Passage in the Senate Is Very Unlikely (Original Post) Generic Other May 2012 OP

Worst. Speaker. Ever. deacon May 2012 #1

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1. Worst. Speaker. Ever.

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