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Bush raps Democrats on spending

Bush Chides Democrats for Suggesting Differences Over Spending Are Minimal

JENNIFER LOVEN
AP News

Aug 02, 2007 11:49 EDT

President Bush ridiculed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Thursday for saying that the $22 billion that separates Democrats in Congress and the White House on spending bills is a "very small difference."

"Only in Washington can $22 billion be called a very small difference," Bush said after meeting with his Cabinet.

Bush's tough talk in the steamy Rose Garden was his latest attempt to frame his side of the debate with the Democratic-led Congress over a dozen spending measures needed to fund federal operations after the current fiscal year ends on Sept. 30.

The president knocked Democratic leaders for planning to send Congress into its summer recess for a month starting this weekend without sending him a single one of the bills.

That gives lawmakers very little time after they return in early September to get the spending bills passed.

"If Congress doesn't pass the spending bills by the end of the fiscal year, Cabinet secretaries report that their departments may be unable to move forward with urgent priorities for our country," Bush said. "This doesn't have to be this way."

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