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WASHINGTON — The Senate has passed its first spending bill for the upcoming budget year, a $73 billion measure that pays for increases for military veterans’ health care programs. The politically popular measure passed on a 97-2 vote. It may be one of the very few of the 12 annual spending bills setting the day-to-day budgets of Cabinet agencies to become law by an Oct. 1 deadline for the start of the 2012 budget year.
