GOP: Senate Dems breaking law on spending limits

Published May 22, 2012 4:00am ET



Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., has moved to implement the budget proposed by President Obama, which failed to receive a single vote in Congress and violates the current law on spending limits, according to Senate Republicans.

“We have Members of Congress that take it as a personal challenge to see how they can defeat, get around, and spend more money than they’re allocated,” Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., said on the Senate floor this afternoon. “The American people are being misled in this attempt. We’re not following the Budget Control Act.”

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