“Senate Budget Chair Patty Murray, and her colleagues, will introduce the long-delayed Democrat plan on Wednesday,” Senate Budget ranking member Jeff Sessions of Alabama said Saturday in the GOP weekly address, previewing the Republican rebuttal to the proposal to be unveiled by the Democratic senator from Washington.
“I fear it will crush American workers and our economy with trillions in new taxes, spending and debt,” Sessions said. “I fear Chairman Murray will follow the president’s lead: raising taxes to enrich the bureaucracy at the expense of the people.”…
A Senate Republican aide said the process would likely run the typical course and include a free-for-all of amendments offered on the floor.
“The majority of the debate will be on the direction each side wants the take the country. Obviously Democrats want to raise taxes and increase spending,” the GOP aide said. Probably when the debate “hits the floor there will be a traditional vote-a-rama — an everything-and-the-kitchen-sink-exercise where both parties propose amendments on various topics.”
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