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What Policy Measures Could Get Added to the Spending Bill?

By Joe Williams
Posted February 23, 2018 at 9:24pm

By Joe Williams and Bian Elkhatib

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Congress has the next few weeks to pass a spending bill to fund the government. Some members could try and attach “pet project” bills to the package.

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