The Nation - News from April 30, 1987
The Democratic-controlled Senate gave a narrow, tentative endorsement to a fiscal 1988 budget that would raise taxes, cut President Reagan’s military spending request and allow only selected increases in domestic programs. By a mostly party-line vote of 50 to 49, the Senate gave preliminary approval to a $1-trillion spending plan drafted by Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lawton Chiles (D-Fla.).
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