March 11, 2005

In Brief

BUDGET CRITICISM: Members of a Senate Appropriations panel grilled Education Secretary Margaret Spellings about the president's budget plan for the 2006 fiscal year last week, asking her to justify the proposed canceling of 48 education programs. "We're going to need specifics on why you have eliminated these programs," said the subcommittee's chairman, Sen. Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania. "Every one of these programs has a sponsor, and people are very

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