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GOP budget: Deep cuts in federal health benefits 1 year 7 weeks ago

WASHINGTON — House Republicans will unveil a 2012 budget plan today that slashes tax rates and calls for unprecedented cuts in federal health benefits.

The plan, produced by House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, would cut spending on Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security in order to produce $4.4 trillion in deficit reduction over 10 years.

Ryans Medicare Plan Scares GOP 51 weeks 4 days ago

The revamping of the medicare plan has put a scare into some Republican law makers. The voucher system that Ryan touts seems to be more than they bargained for. With the Republican lose in New York, it's got some Republicans worried about the 2012 election. Long live the T.E.A. Party.

Senate to vote on rival GOP, Democratic budgets 1 year 11 weeks ago

WASHINGTON – In a demonstration of official Washington's often curious logic, the Senate is expected to vote down both a slashing GOP budget bill and a less painful Democratic plan to demonstrate progress instead of gridlock.

Senate rejects rival GOP, Democratic budgets 1 year 11 weeks ago

WASHINGTON – The Democratic-led Senate on Wednesday emphatically rejected a budget-slashing House spending bill as too draconian. It then immediately killed a rival Democratic plan that was derided by moderate Democrats as too timid in its drive to cut day-to-day agency budgets.

The votes to scuttle the competing measures were designed, ironically, to prompt progress. The idea was to show tea party-backed GOP conservatives in the House that they need to pare back their budget-cutting ambitions while at the same time demonstrating to Democratic liberals that they need to budge, too.