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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A spending bill that funds the U.S. government for the rest of the budget year passed the Senate on Tuesday despite complaints about nearly $8 billion in what critics called "pork-barrel" projects. 

The Senate passes a bill to fund the government through the end of the fiscal year. 

Senators voted 62-35 to cut off debate on the $410 billion measure and passed it on a voice vote immediately afterward. 

The omnibus spending bill includes more than 8,000 congressional "earmarks," which total almost $8 billion. The earmarks have caused critics to question President Obama's pledge to end wasteful spending, but Obama administration officials said the bill is a holdover from the previous Congress. 

"It is in America's best interest to close the book on the last administration and let the new one hit the ground running," said Sen. Daniel Inouye, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. See where the money is going » 

But Sen. John McCain, a longtime critic of congressional spending and Obama's Republican opponent in the 2008 election, said the vote shows "business as usual" remained the order of the day. 

"If the president were serious about his pledge for change, he would veto this bill. He won't," McCain said. 

The bill funds the U.S. government through September, when the 2008 budget year ends. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, postponed the vote last week because he wasn't sure supporters had the 60 votes needed to break a potential GOP filibuster. 

Republican critics, led by House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, have urged Obama to veto the bill because of the earmarks, targeted spending provisions inserted by Democratic and Republican lawmakers. 

1. what kind of spending received criticism?
2. what is their total in dollars?
3. what is another term used by critics for these expenditures?
4. How long will this bill keep the government funded for?
5. who promised to curtail wasteful spending?
6. what is his excuse for the spending?
7. What does McCain think should be done with the bill?
8. Has anyone else recommended the bill be vetoed?
9. who?
10. who leads them?
11. where is he from?
12. who put the earmarks into the bill?'
13. were Democrats concerned about a filibuster?
14. how many votes did they need to avoid one?
15. in which year did McCain and Obama both run for president?
16. has McCain always been critical of too much spending?
17. how many earmarks were put in the bill?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. congressional "earmarks"
2. almost $8 billion
3. "pork-barrel" projects
4. through the end of the fiscal year
5. President Obama
6. holdover from the previous Congress
7. presidential veto
8. yes
9. Republican critics
10. House Minority Leader John Boehner
11. Ohio
12. Democratic and Republican lawmakers
13. yes
14. 60
15. 2008
16. yes
17. more than 8,000

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CHAPTER XVI 

FRANK KILLS A DEER 

They plodded through the bush for an hour or two without seeing any living thing except a few pigeons, and Harry began to look doubtful. 

"If it was early morning, I'd try one of the rock outcrops where nothing grows," he observed. "The deer get up on to those places out of the dew then. As it's afternoon, I don't know which way to head." 

Frank glanced at his clothes. Keen as he was on hunting, he would not have been sorry to head for home, for his duck trousers were badly torn and one of his boots which had been rather the worse for wear when he started was almost dropping off his foot. They trudged on, however, and accident favored them, as it often does when one is hunting, for at last when they were in very thick bush Harry dropped suddenly behind a patch of withered fern. 

"Look there!" he said softly. "Right ahead of you yonder." 

Frank gazed ahead with straining eyes, but he could only see the great trunks stretching back in serried ranks. He had heard somewhat to his astonishment that it is not often that a novice can see a deer in the bush even when it is pointed out to him, but now, it seemed, the thing was true. He could have declared that there was not a deer anywhere within the range of his vision. 

"Right in front," whispered Harry, impatiently. "About seventy yards off. Oh, look yonder!" 

1. What time of day was it?
2. Had they caught anything so far?
3. How long had they been walking without seeing anything?
4. Was Frank ready to go home?
5. Did he like hunting?
6. Did his boots fit?
7. What kind of pants was he wearing?
8. Were they in good condition?
9. What was wrong with them?
10. What did Harry drop behind?
11. If it were morning where would they have gone?
12. Can deer be found there?
13. Why do they like it there?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. morning
2. No
3. an hour or two
4. Yes
5. Yes
6. it was almost dropping off his foot
7. duck trousers
8. No
9. they were torn
10. a patch of fern.
11. one of the rock outcrops where nothing grows,
12. Yes
13. because it's out of the dew

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Ambrose of Alexandria (before 212 – c. 250) was a friend of the Christian theologian Origen. Ambrose was attracted by Origen's fame as a teacher, and visited the Catechetical School of Alexandria in 212. At first a gnostic Valentinian and Marcionist, Ambrose, through Origen's teaching, eventually rejected this theology and became Origen's constant companion, and was ordained deacon. He plied Origen with questions, and urged him to write his Commentaries () on the books of the Bible, and, as a wealthy nobleman and courtier, he provided his teacher with books for his studies and secretaries to lighten the labor of composition. 

He suffered during the persecution under the Roman emperor Maximinus Thrax in 235. He was later released and died a confessor. The last mention of Ambrose in the historical record is in Origen's "Contra Celsum," which the latter wrote at the solicitation of Ambrose. 

Origen often speaks of Ambrose in affectionately as a man of education with excellent literary and scholarly tastes. All of Origen's works written after 218 are dedicated to Ambrose, including his "On Martyrdom", "Contra Celsum", "Commentary on St. John's Gospel", and "On Prayer". Ambrose's letters to Origen (praised by Jerome) are lost, although part of one exists.

1. Which religions theory did Origen believe in?
2. What about Origen piqued Ambrose's interest?
3. Where did he teach?
4. When was this?
5. What was Ambrose's original religious belief?
6. Did he eventually give up this belief?
7. What caused him to do this?
8. What religious figure did he become?
9. Did he have a lot of wealth?
10. What did he do with his wealth?
11. How did he die?
12. Did Origen think highly of him?
13. What did Origen say about him?
14. Did Origen dedicate anything to him?
15. When were those works written?
16. Who thought highly of Ambrose's letters to his friend?
17. What happened to these letters?
18. When did Ambrose die?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Christian
2. fame as a teacher
3. Catechetical School of Alexandria
4. 212
5. gnostic Valentinian and Marcionist
6. Yes.
7. Origen's teaching
8. ordained deacon
9. Yes.
10. he provided his teacher with books and secretaries.
11. as a confessor
12. Yes.
13. a man of education with excellent literary and scholarly tastes
14. Yes.
15. after 218
16. Jerome
17. they were lost
18. c. 250