Senate OK clears way for Obama budget

Late Thursday night, the U.S. Senate approved President Obama's $3.5 trillion fiscal 2010 budget, and in the process gave the new president much of what he wanted in his first budgetary proposal.

The Senate easily approved the measure, 55-43, thehill.com reported Friday, after turning back a plan by U.S. Senator John McCain, R-Ariz., which sought to cut spending on most federal programs but increase defense spending and veterans' benefits.