Senate Joins House in Endorsing Plan To Balance the Budget by 2002

Washington

The Senate joined the House last week in endorsing a 1996 budget resolution that calls for balancing the federal budget over seven years by slowing spending in scores of areas, including education.

Republicans touted their plan, which passed 57 to 42, as historic, even though it calls for more modest cuts than a spending plan endorsed by the House earlier this month....

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