Republicans pushed a $2.36 trillion budget through the Senate early Friday, a package allowing lower spending and smaller tax cuts than President Bush wants and trimming record deficits faster than he proposed.
... The measure was approved 51-45 ...
The only senators crossing party lines on passage were Trent Lott, R-Mississippi, and Zell Miller, D-Georgia. Sens. John Edwards, D-North Carolina; John Kerry, D-Massachusetts; Harry Reid, D-Nevada, and Tim Johnson, D-South Dakota, did not vote.
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