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Those controlling the public purse strings are often exhorted - correctly - to tighten up government spending. But the federal assistance program that pays for poor and middle income people to tighten up their houses against the cold is not where such fiscal restraint should come.
A bill put forward by the Bush administration's Energy Department that is now before the Senate calls for spending $201 million on the weatherization program, which is $26 million less than fiscal year 2008 and $40 million less than provided for in fiscal year 2007. Earlier this year, President Bush proposed eliminating the program altogether, The Associated Press reports.See the full content of this document
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Tight or Tighten Up
Sen. Susan Collins and her colleagues from cold-weather states are opposing the propose...
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