Senate approves bill to spend $1.1 trillion
Posted: December 14, 2009 at 5:27 a.m.
Sen. Richard Lugar (left), R-Ind., and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., confer after the passage of the $1.1 trillion spending bill on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sunday.
The Senate on Sunday passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill with increased budgets for a number of areas of the federal government, including health, education, law enforcement and veterans’ programs.
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