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Get Real About Budgeting Before It’s Too Late

By Rep. Jim Cooper
Special to Roll Call
Sept. 19, 2006, Midnight

Budget debates on Capitol Hill will never be the same, now that we have proof that presidential budgets have failed us, not because of their spending priorities but because of bad accounting. The Bush administration keeps two sets of books but shows Congress only one of them.

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