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Nevertheless, the deal has three GOP votes in the Senate in its support - three more than the President got in the House. They come at a cost. Depending on what the final bill amounts to, the deal could cost more than $35 billion in cuts per Republican vote. And that's after the Dems removed several provisions at the G.O.P. senators' request - from family planning for low-income women to money to restore the National Mall. Senator Susan Collins, the lead Republican negotiator said that minuscule support from her party proved how hard it will be for Obama to overcome...
...votes in the Senate but several spending provisions that would not have kicked in until after 2011 drew fire from both sides of the aisle. Collins and Senator Ben Nelson, a Nebraska Democrat, spent most of the week closeted with 18 centrists, including six Republicans, hammering out the deal reached late Friday. In the end only Collins, her fellow Senator from Maine, Olympia Snowe, and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania signed on. Collins said she will continue to lobby her GOP colleagues...
...partnership here," Nelson said. "And for us to truly have a partnership, we're going to have to have people on both sides of the aisle on this issue and on the next issue and the issue thereafter. He recognizes that getting input from everybody makes a great deal of sense even though ultimately there may be 59 Democratic votes. But he knows that just picking off a Republican to get your 60 votes is not bipartisan enough for what we want to do here...
...chance that some items that may fall out of the bill because of the compromise, such as the education provisions, could be reinserted in negotiations with the House over the final version. Nelson is aware of the risk but plans to fight tooth and nail to protect his deal. "The President wants bipartisan support," he noted. "And to get it, you have to maintain something comparable to what we're talking about...
...decide whether to break away and form a separate nation. Some analysts have suggested that the tanks could be part of a new, more robust southern Sudanese ground force. Conflict between Sudan's north and south in the 1980s and '90s killed more than 2 million people. A peace deal in 2005 ended hostilities but opened the way for an independent South Sudan, a possibility Khartoum is determined to halt. (See pictures of the brazen pirates of Somalia...