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.
Henry David Thoreau wrote Civil Disobedience to protest slavery in the United States and the Mexican-American war. Thoreau was displeased with the government, and his essay helped to influence the Civil Rights Movement.