Budget: 40 of the Senate’s 47 Republican members stood with their House colleagues and voted for House Budget Committee Paul Ryan’s budget yesterday. Only five Republicans voted against the measure and one of them, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., did so because he thinks it did not cut spending enough in the short term.

By contrast, not a single senator in either party voted in favor of President Obama’s budget which raises 43 taxes by $1.5 trillion over the next ten years.