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Several GOP senators to back a vote on budget bill

By Andrew Taylor
Published December 17, 2013 5:00am ET
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Several GOP senators to back a vote on budget bill
Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., takes an escalator to the Senate for votes on nominations Dec. 16 at the Capitol in Washington. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite) | J. Scott Applewhite

Several conservative Senate Republicans have swung behind a bipartisan budget bill, apparently giving it enough momentum to win a pivotal test in the Senate over the passive resistance of top GOP leaders.

It’ll take at least five Republicans to advance the measure over a filibuster threshold demanded by GOP leaders. Announcements Monday by Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah and Georgia Sens. Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss, as well as a strong hint by Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., that they would back that step appeared to seal enough GOP support to advance the measure. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., whose home-state GOP colleague, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, was a top negotiator on the bill, swung behind it Sunday.

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