Members of both houses remained in their districts on this tax deadline, still enjoying their two-week spring recess. I think they should be able to get by on that. The Senate's initial version of the budget resolution was derailed by a coalition of Democrats and a few moderate Republicans, many of whom complained they could not support the president's full tax cut if ways could not be found to boost spending for education, health and veterans' programs. If you send it, they will spend it. Should the Senate's wish list become reality, Bush claimed, the growth rate of the federal government could double in only nine years.
Excess spending threatens economic vitality.
What we want is a stronger economy, not a larger federal government. The president has his work cut out for him as he awaits Congress' return. Even as organizations such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce continued wide, grass-roots efforts to bend the ears of lawmakers in the president's direction, Democrats hit the airwaves and dug trenches for battle. Pages will open in a new browser window External sites are not endorsed by CNN Interactive. An AOL Time Warner Company.