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President Obama plans to sign the $410 billion dollar fiscal budget that contains more than 9000 earmarks.
 
President Obama plans to sign the $410 billion dollar fiscal budget that contains more than 9000 earmarks.
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''"I will also go through the federal budget, line by line, eliminating programs that no longer work and making the ones we do need work better and cost less because we cannot meet 21st century challenges with a 20th century bureaucracy."''  
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''"I will also go through the federal budget, line by line, eliminating programs that no longer work and making the ones we do need work better and cost less because we cannot meet 21st century challenges with a 20th century bureaucracy."''
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''"And those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account - to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day - because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government."''
    
==See also==
 
==See also==
Siteadmin, Check users, oversight, Administrators
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