House Approves Budget Bill That Would Force Cuts

Washington

House Republicans last week easily won approval of a 1996 budget resolution that would cut total spending on the budget category that includes education by more than $10 billion in the next fiscal year.

The broad--but non-binding--plan the House Budget Committee submitted with the resolution calls for slashing 150 education programs and abolishing the Education Department while charting a path to balance the...

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