Senate passes measure funding veterans' programs

[ProSense]

Senate passes measure funding veterans' programs

By ANDREW TAYLOR

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has passed its first spending bill for the upcoming budget year, a $73 billion measure funding increases for veterans' health care programs.

The politically popular measure passed on a sweeping 97-2 vote. It may be one of the very few of the 12 annual spending bills setting the day-to-day budgets of Cabinet agencies to become law by an Oct. 1 deadline for the start of the 2012 budget year.

Differences with the House measure shouldn't be too difficult to reconcile.

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Corker and Coburn voted against it.

[babylonsister]

1. Excellent! I do wish corker and coburn would be asked about their

vote. Repeatedly, on air. :grr:

[jenmito]

2. K&R. Why doesn't this threas have more responses?

Don't answer-I already know the answer.

[Raine1967]

3. Agreed.

Still this gets a K&R from me.

:kick:

[blueclown]

4. What veterans programs?

It would be nice for the AP to actually report on a story instead of copying a Senate press release.