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Change Happens Quickly on Capitol Hill 

The House passed the Transportation appropriations conference report for fy'08 yesterday by 270 – 147 and the Senate was set to vote on the $100.3 billion bill that funds housing, treasury and transportation programs. But this afternoon, Majority Leader Reid announced Congress will send the President an omnibus appropriations bill in December that splits the $22 billion difference between their budgets and the Administration's. The omnibus bill will contain approximately $484 billion in non-Pentagon spending, including veterans' health, foreign aid, medical research, roads, schools, national parks and the space program. The Democrats have already made "tremendously difficult cuts" in Democratic priorities ($11 billion in reductions) and are now challenging the President to compromise. An omnibus does contain project earmarks which places pressure on Republicans to support the efforts of the Democrats. Without a compromise, a continuing resolution funding the federal government at this year's level is all that is left – in that bill, there will be no project earmarks.

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