Human Needs Report

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Articles from April 1, 2005

• FT 2006 Budget Resolutions Clear House, Senate Floor
  Both chambers of Congress have passed budget resolutions for fiscal year 2006 that will make steep cuts in services for vulnerable people in the coming years. On March 17, the Senate budget resolution passed 51 to 49. Republican Senators Snowe, DeWine, Voinovich and Chafee joined with all Democrats and Independent Jeffords in voting no to S. Con. Res. 18. That same day, by a vote of 218 to 214, the House also passed its budget resolution (H. Con. Res. 95).
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• Opposition to President's Social Security Proposal Growing
  The fate of President Bush's proposal to partially privatize Social Security is yet unclear. Democrats in Congress seem largely united in opposition and many Republicans have been signaling that supporting the President's plan may be too politically costly. The social conservative wing of the party appears lukewarm and some moderates such as Sen. Olympia Snowe (ME) balk at drastic program changes with large price-tags (the President's plan is said to require borrowing around $4.9 trillion over twenty years).
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• TANF on the Senate Floor? Maybe
  Confidence was building that the TANF reauthorization bill would be on the Senate floor during the week of April 4, replaced shortly afterward by the more familiar TANF uncertainty. Senate offices and advocates are readying amendments should debate begin on the PRIDE bill (S. 667) within the next week or two.
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