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Dick Durbin: “A budget resolution is basically the blueprint which says this is how far we can go and no further under the rules of…”

On the recordMay 9, 2001
A budget resolution is basically the blueprint which says this is how far we can go and no further under the rules of the Senate and the House, in spending. So once you put that blueprint in place, when the Appropriations Committee sits down to put the spending bills in place, they look to this blueprint, this budget resolution, as does the Finance Committee when it looks to the tax consequences of this same budget resolution. So we have to pay careful attention to this blueprint.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Discussing the importance of the budget resolution during Senate floor debate.

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