Senate Braces for a Heated 2012 Budget Debate
Published Monday, May 2, 2011
Chapter II of Washington’s great budget debate is “put up or shut up” time for the U.S. Senate.
The House was the primary actor in Chapter I, driving the fight over domestic appropriations cuts in the 2011 budget agreed to last month. But as lawmakers return Monday, the longer-term fiscal crisis requires the Senate to step up and bring with it a level of compromise and intimacy once second nature to the chamber.
