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The largess demonstrated by the Senate in padding its budget with billions of dollars in additional spending this week showed that lawmakers are no different from many of their constituents. Lawmakers, analysts said the Senate's reluctance to clamp down on spending was a natural result of an approach that fails to recognize a sharply changed reality. Senate Republicans showed no hesitation about bursting through the spending ceiling he set, adding more than $16 billion after eliminating some of his cuts.