Moderate senators from both parties are using a budget debate this week to try to slice [Bush]'s 10-year $726 billion proposal to $350 billion. Each party accused the other of trying to get its way under the cover of war, when little attention is focused on the Capitol.
Bush's aides find the struggle somewhat frustrating, since his party controls both houses of Congress. But the moderates' salvo reflects the power that just a few lawmakers can exercise in a Senate where Bush's party has a two-vote majority.
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