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2006
HNR: House Cuts $38.8 Billion from Budget; Slashes Health Care, Student Loans, Child Support and Help for People with Disabilities (2/3/06)
2005
WashPost: GOP Leaders Agree to $41.6 Billion Spending Cut (12/19/05) HNR: House and Senate to Attempt Passing a Final Bill Cutting Aid to Poor (12/9/05) HNR: Labor-HHS-Education Bill Must Clear One Last Hurdle (12/9/05) NYTimes: GOP Forces $50 Billion in Budget Cuts Through House (11/18/05) HNR: House Leadership Can't Dig Up Votes to Slash Medicaid, Child Support, Food Stamps, SSI, and Foster Care (11/11/05) HNR: House Committees Slash Medicaid, Child Support, SSI and Foster Care; Reduce Planned Increases for Child Care (10/28/05) HNR: Senate Budget Committee Approves Nearly $40 Billion in Cuts to Entitlement Program (10/25/05) HNR: Low-Income Programs Threatened with Across-the-Board Cuts (10/14/05) HNR: House Presses for Even Larger Cuts to Low-Income Services (10/14/05) HNR: Congress Approves Stop-Gap Measure to Keep Government Running (9/30/05) HNR: Washington Focuses on Aiding Gulf Coast Victims (9/16/05) HNR: Reconciliation Delayed: Congress Puts Off Cuts to Food Stamps and Medicaid (9/16/05) HNR: Senate Committee Agrees to Labor-HHS-Education Spending Bill (7/22/05) WP Op-Ed: In Defense of Success: Government Really Can Lessen Poverty (7/19/05) HNR: House Approves Labor-HHS-Education Spending Bill (7/1/05) HNR: Bill Funding Departments of Labor, HHS, and Education Moves in House (6/17/05) NYTimes: Child Care a Focus in Welfare Overhaul (5/31/05) HNR: Reconciliation Instructions Put Human Needs Programs at Risk (5/20/05) NYTimes: Those Who Outgrow Foster Care Still Struggle, Study Finds (5/19/05) HNR: Congress Approves a Final Budget Resolution (4/29/05) HNR: Budget Conference Committee to Contemplate Deep Cuts to Human Needs Programs (4/15/05) HNR: FY 2006 Budget Resolutions Clear House, Senate Floor (4/1/05) HNR: House and Senate Committees Pass Budget Resolutions for FY 2006 (3/11/05) HNR: Deep Cuts in the President's Budget; Committees Ready to Act (2/25/05) 2004
HNR: Congress Passes Massive Spending Bill (11/24/04) HNR: Congress Unlikely to Complete Appropriations Before Adjournment (9/17/04) HNR: House Committee Approves Bill Funding Departments of Labor, HHS and Education (7/16/04) HNR: Bill to Change Federal Child Welfare Funding in Draft Form (7/16/04) HNR: Yet Again - TANF Extended (7/2/04) Youth Today: The President's Tilted Playing Field (May 2004)
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