Senate narrowly passes first budget in four years

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Senate narrowly passes first budget in four years

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/senate-narrowly-passes-first-budget-four-years-015602784--business.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/p96B9W1HpGsMfW00EuIrhw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-03-24T015602Z_3_CBRE92M138H00_RTROPTP_2_USA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A man walks past the United States Capitol Dome before dawn in Washington" align="left" title="A man walks past the United States Capitol Dome before dawn in Washington" border="0" /></a>By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Saturday narrowly passed its first federal budget in four years, a move that will usher in a relative lull in Washington's fiscal wars until an anticipated summer showdown over raising the debt ceiling. The budget plan passed 50-49 at about 5 a.m. after a marathon voting session in the Democratic-controlled chamber. Four Democratic senators facing tough re-election campaigns in 2014 joined all the Senate Republicans in opposing the measure, which seeks to raise nearly $1 trillion in new tax revenues by closing some tax breaks for the ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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