Vincent Feli Boy’s Blog

“The president after all this time, seven-plus years (in office), you would think that he is not King George. He’s President George. And he should work with us,” Reid, D-Nev., said at a news conference. Last year, Democrats succeeded in adding $17 billion in domestic spending to Bush’s request, disappointing conservatives who thought Bush should have adopted a tougher line.

Bush played a stronger hand late in the year as Democrats, for the most part, stuck to his bottom-line budget demands when passing a catchall spending bill funding domestic agency budgets for the current fiscal year. “We will once again take good care of our troops. But we must also invest in our own economy and take care of our people here at home,” committee Chairman said in his own set of prepared remarks.

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Bond was revoked Wednesday for a former teacher’s aide charged with drug violations and corrupting minors after the suspect reportedly tried to contact one of the teenage boys she is accused of victimizing. Abbie Jane Swogger, 34, of Harrison, was sent to the Westmoreland County Prison following a hearing before District Judge Frank Pallone in New Kensington. New Kensington police said they found cocaine, beer and teenagers in a hotel room rented by Ms. Swogger on Feb. 22. She was charged with possession and possession with intent to deliver cocaine, and four counts of corruption of minors. Ms. Swogger, formerly an exotic dancer, had been a teacher’s aide in the Highlands School District.

She resigned that post a day before she was charged. Judge Pallone originally had set her bail at 10 percent of $25,000. He allowed her to be released from custody, pending a preliminary hearing, under conditions that she not contact any of the youths who had been in the hotel room that night, and that she not leave her residence except for necessities, said her defense attorney Duke George.

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