In Mr. Rumsfeld's testimony, he said that the extra Pentagon spending sought in the Bush plan was vital to the nation's security.
The pay for government workers — which, unlike the spending sought in other Republican measures, would be retroactive — might be considered by the Senate, though no final decisions have been made.
The pay for government workers — which, unlike the spending sought in other Republican measures, would be retroactive — might get consideration by the Senate, though no final decisions have been made.
In the House, the plan introduced Wednesday by Representative John M. Spratt Jr., Democrat of South Carolina and chairman of the Budget Committee, retained more of the nonmilitary domestic spending sought by Mr. Obama, who requested $540 billion for 2010, a 10percentt increase.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 — Trying to break a fiscal impasse with the White House, Congressional Democrats on Thursday made a new overture to reduce the spending sought by Congress, but the administration quickly dismissed the move.
The assertion that Mr. Gore is proposing three times the spending sought by Mr. Clinton is based on a comparison of the 1992 Clinton campaign's agenda with Mr. Gore's proposals this year.
The governor and legislative leaders held their third budget negotiation today, discussing new sources of revenue, like Indian casinos, video gambling machines at race tracks, or joining the multistate Powerball lottery, that could offset education spending sought by the Legislature.
Much of Mr. Gingrich's four days in Nevada ahead of the caucuses there were spent seeking donors.
(The seventy-two million dollars Bloomberg spent on his mayoral campaign was more than anyone else had ever spent seeking that office by nearly a factor of five).
