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The Human Needs Report is the Coalition on Human Needs'
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populations. It is published every other week while Congress is
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Funding for FY 2011 Finalized; Government Shutdown Averted
Half way into the fiscal year and after months of standoff, the House and Senate passed the final FY 2011 spending bill for discretionary programs (those funded annually).
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The FY 2012 Budget:
House Republicans Take Steps To Drown Government in a Bathtub; The President has Other Priorities
Anti-tax activist Grover Norquist famously observed a decade ago that he didn't want to abolish government, but just to "reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."
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