Congress ended months of political haggling and passed a bill cutting nearly $40 billion from the 2011 budget, taking only a small bite from the burgeoning deficit but hitting a milestone in GOP efforts to slow the growth of spending.

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Congress Puts Haggling Aside to Pass Budget Bill
What does the federal government’s ham-fisted expropriation of the entire student loan industry to help finance ObamaCare mean for students of private colleges? The No. 2 Democrat in the Senate Dick Durbin offers a clue. Pardon his language: [S]tudents at the Illinois Institute of Art — a player in the burgeoning for-profit education industry that Durbin
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Dick Durbin Expresses His Concern for Those Crushed by Big Government