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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal's top budget adviser says a consultant hired to devise state money-savings ideas has already come up with enough recommendations to pay for the $4 million contract. Commissioner of Administration Kristy Nichols said Friday that the recommendations from Alvarez & Marsal were included in Jindal's budget proposal for next year. ...

It's a free country so anybody in the race or others can talk about whatever they want.

I didn't see anybody dying in the streets or starving to death.

The details do matter. We do need to read the bills and understand them.

Some of the more than 19,000 consultants have to go.

The GOP-led House is slated to pass the 1,582-page bill Wednesday, though many tea party conservatives are sure to oppose it.

The move would mean about $100,000 more a year in revenue

The council is more than six months late adopting a 2013-14 budget.

The unincorporated areas of the parish will provide $52.5 million to fund city services in the 2014 budget.

HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama has signed a bipartisan budget bill easing automatic spending cuts over two years, marking a modest end to a challenging year for the White House and Congress. The deal reduces across-the-board cuts already scheduled to take effect, restoring about $63 billion over two years...

Phil Robertson is more real than the budget.

The question is not the need for VA clinics but doing the work properly.

The bill cleared a test vote yesterday with the help of 12 Republicans.

The shutdown was financially and politically damaging to the nation.

The bill is expected to make it through a test vote today, with the House-passed measure to reach President Obama's desk no later than tomorrow.

By reducing cost we can move forward with the upgrade.

Supporters of the measure easily beat back attacks on it from conservative organizations that sometimes raise money by stoking conflict within the Republican Party.

The Wisconsin congressman went on the air Thursday to tout the agreement that, among other things, restores $63 million in mandatory spending cuts.

It would set the stage for action in January on a $1 trillion-plus spending bill for the current budget year.

Mayor Tommy Eschete clarified that most of the increases are a result of mandated increases to retirement contributions and health care programs.