For Republicans, the compromise reduces funding to two of their least-favorite agencies -- the Internal Revenue Service and the Environmental Protection Agency. Overall, federal spending would be lower than the final budget of President George W. Bush's administration.
. The White Man's Burden  is a poem by the English poet Rudyard Kipling. It was originally published in the popular magazine McClure's in 1899, with the subtitle The United States and the Philippine Islands.
The White Suit. ...and every day of his life he put on a clean shirt and a full suit from head to toe made out of linen so white it hurt your eyes to look at it.. So wrote Huck Finn, in a passage MT wrote around 1880, about the aristocratic Colonel Grangerford (left, as drawn by E. W. Kemble).