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" To address the growth of entitlement programs , Bush 's budget proposal contains about a 1 percentage point cut in the rapid growth in Medicare to squeeze about $ 66 billion in savings over five years from the federal health care program for the elderly . In January , the Los Angeles Democrat took the first step to achieve that goal by introducing legislation creating a panel of experts to evaluate whether a federally funded Latino museum should be built on the National Mall , the grand promenade of the nation 's capital featuring the Washington Monument , the Lincoln Memorial , the Smithsonian Institution , the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the World War II Memorial . " Bush said $ 245 billion is needed for military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan over the next year and a half , bringing total Pentagon funding for the wars to $ 662 billion . After describing a flamboyantly wacky hotel complex in Las Vegas , Westlake wrote the following : " When Brandon entered the spacious living room of cottage number one at three that afternoon , Earl Radburn in his knife-crease tan clothing stood at the picture window , with its view out over the Battle-Lake , at the moment peaceful , with the tall Moebius shape of the hotel beyond it . " Democrats griped that Bush would meet his five-year balanced-budget goal by forecasting far higher tax revenues than nonpartisan congressional estimators expect . That 's what happened when retired geologist Charles J. Robinove of Monument , Colo ., tried out an electronic travel edition of the game . However , compared with the difficulties of preserving resources such as the BBC Domesday [ 10 ] system , the preservation of e-prints is relatively straightforward from a technical point of view . Karen Davenport , health policy director for the Washington-based Center for American Progress , said Medicare provides economic security for people who cannot acquire health insurance on their own . That 's what happened in 1990 , when congressional Democrats and President Bush 's father enacted a major deficit-cutting deal . Bush sought to turn on the charm for his Democratic rivals , cracking jokes about his diction and showering praise on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and her new grandson ( who also got a hug from the president ) .