Boehner expects House to pass budget

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Source: The Hill

Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Thursday that he expects the House to vote on a full budget resolution, as it has every year since the GOP took over in 2011, a development welcomed by Democrats as "politically toxic" to GOP midterm election prospects.

"I certainly expect so," Boehner said at his weekly press conference.

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has said he intends to write a budget again this year, even though the December budget law established a discretionary spending level of $1.014 trillion for 2015.

Ryan has said he wants to lay out new ideas for combating inequality by fostering economic growth and reforming job training in the budget.

Big questions remain however such as whether he will incorporate Rep. Dave Camp’s (R-Mich.) controversial tax overhaul or whether he will try to cut spending deeper in 2015 than in the December deal, which Ryan struck with Senate Budget Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-Wash.).

The timing for the budget is not yet clear, but some aides speculate there could be an early April release with a vote before the Easter recess.

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Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/199446-boehner-expects-house-to-pass-budget

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This is Paul Ryan's budget that cuts seniors' healthcare benefits and ends the Medicare guarantee.

How does Eddie Munster keep getting reelected?

Are they that dumb in his Wisconsin district.

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1. Let them pass it

then let the democrats go on the offensive about what is in their budget. However, I doubt the spineless democrats would dare to do such a thing as informing the public about repuke games.