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Spending Bills May Wait

Reid Says President Won’t Dictate on Approps

By Emily Pierce
Roll Call Staff
Feb. 13, 2008, Midnight

Still bitter after last year’s appropriations battles with President Bush, Senate Democrats are holding out the possibility of punting this year’s annual spending bills to the next president if Bush refuses to negotiate again this year.

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Rep. Michele Bachmann, who recently suspended her campaign for the presidency, speaks at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 9.

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