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Leading Democrat Will Vote for Budget Cutting Plan
WASHINGTON (AP) -- One of President Barack Obama's closest allies in the Senate says he will vote for the plan even though he has major qualms about its painful spending cuts.

Illinois Democrat Dick Durbin says he is endorsing the austere deficit-cutting plan by Obama's budget commission so he can get a seat at the table when Congress haggles over the deficit next year.

The plan by the leaders of the commission has won over a majority of panel members, including five of the six senators who served on it. House members are poised to kill the plan. Only a single House member, South Carolina Democrat John Spratt Jr. is expected to vote for the plan, which would cut $4 trillion from the budget over the coming decade through a combination of tax increases and painful spending cuts.

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12 03 10 by Newsroom
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