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UpInArms Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-02-06 12:46 PM
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91. On this date in history:
http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=237947&n_date=20060202&cat=World

excerpt:

In 1998, President Bill Clinton submitted the first balanced federal budget in 29 years.

In 2002, a report requested by the board of directors of the troubled Enron Corporation accused top executives of forcing the company into bankruptcy by, among other things, inflating profits by almost $1 billion.

<snip>

In 2004, the Bush administration said a bipartisan commission would investigate why pre-war intelligence reports that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction apparently had been wrong. and nothing has happened since

Also in 2004, President George W. Bush asked Congress for $2.4 trillion to fund government programs for fiscal year 2005.

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