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* Though the President calculated that his proposals would slash spending by $48.6 billion, the committee staff estimated the actual reduction at $42.9 billion. Of that, $8.8 billion is to be saved by administrative actions, leaving $34.1 billion, by committee arithmetic, that Congress is being asked to chop.

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GABRIEL SILVA, Colombia's defense minister, responding to Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez's claim that the U.S. sent an unmanned plane into Venezuelan airspace
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