It includes $70 billion as a bridge until the next supplemental spending request.

President Bush cut this spending request to $4.9 billion after taking office.

Approved overwhelmingly, the measures go beyond the administration's spending requests in many areas.

"The president's spending request on infrastructure will be subjected to a higher level of scrutiny."

Nonetheless, the spending request was expected to move easily through Congress.

You can read the specific cuts both to the 2010 real spending level and the 2011 Presidential spending request here.

Since 2007, Blackburn has not made a special spending request in federal budget earmarks.

Even before the spending request, the cost of the census was expected to be double that of 1990.

An $81 billion supplemental spending request for the fiscal year 2005, which began last October, is expected next week.

Democrats and Republicans predicted that the spending request would be approved.