Senate

Senate to vote next week on budget agreement

by Jordain Carney - 04/30/15 10:30 AM ET

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Thursday that the Senate will take up a joint House-Senate budget next week.

“This is a good balanced budget every senator should want to support,” the Kentucky Republican said. “And I look forward to the Senate taking up the budget agreement next week.”

{mosads}The budget blueprint includes a provision to unravel President Obama’s signature health care law, while also balancing the budget within 10 years.

McConnell said the budget “could help lead to more than a million additional jobs and boost our economy by nearly half a trillion dollars.”

“In short, it’s a balanced budget that’s all about the future,” he said. “That’s also why it provides a tool for the Senate majority to repeal a failed policy of the past — ObamaCare — so we can start over with real, patient-centered health reform.”

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