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| In D.C., Pawlenty Calls for Federal Pay Cuts |  | Calling for a smaller and lower-paid federal workforce, Republican Tim Pawlenty took his newly official presidential campaign into the belly of the beast on Wednesday: Washington.
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| Senate Votes Down House GOP Budget Plan | Joined by several moderate Republicans, Democrats controlling the Senate rejected a controversial House budget plan for turning Medicare into a voucher-like program for future beneficiaries.
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| President's Budget Sinks, 97-0 | The Senate voted unanimously on Wednesday to reject a $3.7 trillion budget plan that President Obama sent to Capitol Hill in February.
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| Is Obama Grounding JFK's Space Legacy? | President Obama's proposed 2011 budget did not include funds for Constellation, therefore essentially canceling the program. It sent shock waves throughout NASA, the Congress and the American people. Nearly $10 billion had been invested in design and development of the program.
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| Still $100 Billion To Go for TARP | Chrysler repaid a $5.9 billion high-interest loan, and Treasury is lowering its ownership stake in bailed-out insurer AIG through a stock sale that will bring in $8.7 billion. But the 2008 TARP program is far from a wrap: Taxpayers are still on the hook for $102 billion in loans.
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| TSA and Your Toddler |  | The author asks how teaching our children not to let strangers touch them or their private parts aligns with TSA's security procedures.
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| Senators Want Changes On Overlapping Programs | Officials both in agencies and at the Office of Management and Budget can expect a letter soon from senators asking for their responses to an oversight report that exposes the number of ongoing federal programs that do the same thing.
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| AIG Share Sale Raises $8.7 Billion | The U.S. Treasury Department and American International Group Inc. (AIG) raised $8.7 billion in a share offering, bringing the insurer a step closer to independence after its 2008 bailout.
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