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meanwhile, later today, that house republicans are going to try to tackle the tough job of figuring out, ok, we want to we have set in the november elections a goal of slashing $100 billion from the 2011 budget. and keep in mind, the current budget according to the president s calculations for next year is $1.65 trillion and still runs the deficit. so the republicans are trying to figure exactly where they re going to do the cutting. if they can t come up with an agreement, there could be a government shutdown by march 4th. but this is where politics gets sticky because apparently, there s a bunch of rules that they have to follow today when they decide where to do the cuts so the house reading clerk will actually begin reading all 359 pages of this bill and members can offer amendments at any relevant portion of the bill. for example, if they start talking about against and you want to make a cut in defense, you ll have to raise your hand right then and say now i offer my amendmen

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