{"id":897,"date":"2014-05-22T19:54:07","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T19:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thornrun.com\/today-hill-budget-week-house-senate-pass-unemployment-bill\/"},"modified":"2023-08-08T21:21:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T21:21:00","slug":"today-hill-budget-week-house-senate-pass-unemployment-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thornrun.com\/today-hill-budget-week-house-senate-pass-unemployment-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Today on the Hill: Budget Week in the House; Senate to Pass Unemployment Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nThis week, the House will take up Republican’s fiscal 2015 budget resolution (H.Con.Res. 96<\/a><\/u>), which would cut $5.1 trillion in planned spending over the next ten years. The proposal from House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) is designed to balance the federal budget in 10 years. Approved by the Budget Committee last Wednesday, the plan would revamp safety-net programs, offer a “premium support” alternative to Medicare, and repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The House GOP budget resolution stands no chance of passing the Democratic-controlled Senate, which doesn’t plan to advance a budget plan.\n<\/p>\n

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\nSeveral other budget alternatives will be considered. In recent years, GOP leaders have allowed votes on budget plans from the Democratic minority, the Republican Study Committee, the Progressive Caucus, and the Congressional Black Caucus.
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\nThe House will begin their budget week today by considering one of two budget reform bills that Republicans say will help Congress in its effort to balance the budget. The Baseline Reform Act (H.R. 1871<\/u>) would prohibit automatic inflation increases in budgets from one year to the next. Later this week, the House will consider the Budget and Accounting Transparency Act (H.R. 1872<\/u>) which aims to make budget accounting more accurate, in part by revising the budgetary treatment of federal direct loans and loan guarantees to account for them on a fair value basis.
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\nThe House will also consider up to three suspension bills today:
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