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The Congressional Budget Office is projecting that this election-year s federal deficit will reach $422 billion, congressional aides said Tuesday, the highest ever, yet a smaller shortfall than analysts predicted earlier this year.The figure, provided by aides
stanley isolierkanne who spoke on condition of anonymity, is sure to provide political fodder for both parties during the remaining two months of the presidential and congressional campaigns. This is by far the biggest deficit in American history, said Thomas Kahn, Democratic staff director of the House Budget Committee. There is no credible way Republicans can portray the record deficits they have created as good news. Deficits are going down, jobs are going up, the economy
stanley cup spain continues to improve, said Sean Spicer, R
stanley usa epublican spokesman for the House Budget panel. I don t see how you can t be happy with that news. Democrats plan to cite it as evidence that President Bush s tax and economic policies have been a disaster. But Republicans are ready to assert that the numbers show things are improving. The number was being released later Tuesday in the annual summertime forecast issued by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.The projection by Congress nonpartisan budget analysts would surpass last year s $375 billion shortfall, the current record.When adjusted to erase the effects of inflation, the 2004 projected deficit exceeds the value of every annual shortfall since World War II.Tuesday s CBO estimate should prove fairly a Fedc Can Animal Behavior Help Us Understand Empathy and Dehumanization
This week interception of Russian warplanes by NATO Typhoon fighters reminds me of the time in which the world was on the brink of total nuclear annihilation, when Soviet forces taunted the Americans to test their defenses. This image collection shows that part of a Cold War that seems reactivated right now. January 1963: F-4 Phantom II fighters escort a Soviet bomber as it passes over the carrier Kitty Hawk CVA 63 . Photo: U.S. Navy A U.
stanley canada S. Navy Vought F-8E Crusader of Fighter Squadron VF-51 Screaming Eagles escorting two Soviet Tupolev Tu-16 NATO reporting code Badger bombers on 5 July 1963. Photo: VFP-63, Det Bravo/U.S. Navy A Convair F-102A intercepting a Soviet Bear long-range bomber off
stanley cup the coast of Iceland in July 1970. Photo: U.S. Air Force 1971: A U.S. Navy McDonnell F-4B-27-MC Phantom of Fighter Squadron VF-161 Chargers intercepting a Soviet Tupolev Tu-95MR over the Sea of Japan. Photo: C. Tordesillas/U.S. Navy A U.S. Navy McDonnell F-4B Phantom II from Fighter Squadron VF-151 Vigilantes intercepting a Soviet Tu-95 Bear D aircraft in the early 1970s. Photo: Lt. Morris/U.S. Navy A U.S. Navy Vought F-8J Crusader of fighter squadron VF-194 Red Lightnings intercepts a Soviet Tupolev Tu-95 Bear-A/B reconnaissance aircraft near
stanley mug the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany CVA-34 steaming below on 25 May 1974. Photo: Lt. Fessenden/U.S. Navy A U.S. Navy McDonnell F-4N Phantom II from Fighter S
