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Show SatSunMonTues, March 20-23, 2004 The Park Record A-7 House GOP would exempt WASHINGTON (AP) House Republicans are standing by President Bush with a, plan for containing deficits that would curb expanded benefits for Medicare and other programs, but leave future tax cuts unfettered. unfet-tered. By voice vote, Republicans pushed . an election-year bill through the House Budget Committee on Wednesday requiring requir-ing lawmakers to find spending cuts to pay for any enlargements in benefits. Such savings would not be required for tax reductions an exemption favored by Bush and congressional GOP leaders. The panel also used a party-line, party-line, 24-19 roll call to approve a $2.41 trillion budget for 2.005,, . .The fiscal outline which sets guidelines for future tax and spending bills, mostly follows Bush's priorities but maps faster deficit reduction, smaller tax cuts and tighter spending than he has proposed. Both measures underlined a GOP effort to tackle two goals that Democrats and many deficit hawks see as contradictory: cutting cut-ting taxes and attacking federal red ink expected to blossom to a record half trillion dollars this year. "They're trying to convince the public they're concerned and Utah governor signs measure that will ban firing squads SALT LAKE CITY . (AP) Utah's governor has done away with firing squads in Utah, leaving injection as the only method for executing condemned killers. The1 Utah Legislature passed the measure late last month, and Gov. Olene Walker had said she intended to sign it. She did so Monday without comment. Lawmakers have said the elimination elim-ination of firing squads will deny Don't like our editorials? or by post at ALU (Bid COOKIC DECORATOR OCTRflOROinfllRC) (ALL JILL f OR YOUR UPCOmiflG CfliTf R, BIRTHDAY, flMHVCMARy, Reunion ORCvawDiN BIG COOKIC nDS!! tr-nrrn ir Enjoy this Lower Deer Valley condo with 4 bedrooms and 4 baths. 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" They want to pursue their long-held doctrine of cutting taxes, particularly valued by their conservative and business supporters. sup-porters. , But soaring deficits are attracting attract-ing voters' attention. That means they must address that problem even as the loss of 2.2 million jobs under Bush has fueled Democratic accusations of economic eco-nomic mismanagement. "They've created a mess, and now they're trying to cover their flanks," said Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill. ' killers the chance to go out in a blaze of glory. ' Despite the measure's passage, the state will make allowance for four death row inmates who have already chosen to die in a hail of bullets. Since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976, two people in the United States have died by firing squad, both in Utah: Gary Gilmore in, Send us one of yours: editorparkrecord.com P.O. Box 3688, Park City, UT 84060 It PROUDTO RC0GniZ jill smm mid Dfirninr UMlltYUtfcll! 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In a defeat for Republican leaders and Bush, four moderate GOP senators joined Democrats last week in winning Senate passage pas-sage of a mechanism requiring savings for spending boosts and tax cuts. Even as the House budget panel approved its version of the plan, top Republicans acknowledged acknowl-edged that its fate in the full House was uncertain. "We need to work to make sure we have the votes" to pass it, Nussle acknowledged. 1977 and John Albert Taylor in 1996. Taylor's execution drew more than 150 TV crews from around the world. . A relic of its territorial days, Utah's firing squads employ five riflemen, one of whom shoots a blank so that none will know who fired the lethal shots. Idaho and Oklahoma retain the firing squad on their books but have not used it in modern limes. XliewS JESS REID REAL ESTATE iutir I O HstuH nm& PV k zLt a pMoh " I SAVE M ON ONE-OF-A-KINDSwhileS-TfL V MISMATCHED SETS, FLOOR last! CU 1 SAMPLES AMP OVERSTOCKS! 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