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Alan: If the GOP intended to cut the budget rather than complain about profligate Democrats, they would not have voted to pay furloughed workers for work not done. There is no big government entitlement that Republicans can even consider hacking away at because to do so would result in loss of The House. Sure, there are lots of red-button budget items they would gladly eliminate, but they don't amount to a hill of beans - not even in the aggregate. Recall that Romney-Ryan never specified where actual budget cuts would come from. http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3658
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U.S. House passes bill to retroactively pay furloughed government workers
(Reuters) - The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives unanimously approved a bill on Saturday that would retroactively pay 800,000 furloughed workers once the now 5-day-old government shutdown ends.
The measure now goes to the Democratic-led Senate for concurrence. The White House has said that President Barack Obama will sign it into law. There is no end in sight to the shutdown, and there are still no bipartisan negotiations.
(Reporting by Thomas Ferraro; Editing by Vicki Allen)
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