The top Senate Republican on the Budget Committee says as part of a deal to raise the debt ceiling the Senate should be forced to pass a budget.

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North Dakota Senator Kent Conrad, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, proposed a stripped-down version of Simpson-Bowles on Fox News Sunday.

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Kent Conrad (D-ND), who is chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, said he would be voting for the overall plan.

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New research from Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee Jeff Sessions (R-AL) reveals that this reality may already be here, with more than 107 million Americans on some form of means-tested government welfare.

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The head of the Senate's budget committee, Pete Domenici, proposed a bill that would have made it impossible to spend the Social Security surpluses on the rest of the budget (he called this the Social Security lock-box).

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Chairman Pete Domenici of New Mexico got the Budget Committee in the Republican-controlled Senate to approve the plan on a partisan 11-to-9 vote.

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Secretary of State Colin Powell, testifying before the Senate Budget Committee this morning, told Senators that the tape demonstrated this nexus between terrorists and states that are developing weapons of mass destruction can no longer be looked away from and ignored.

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This past summer the Senate Budget Committee, which is run by Democrats, reported that 26.5% of all tax deductions and credits are taken by those with incomes in the top 1% on the wealth scale.

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