Budget resolutions will be on the floor this week in bot the House and Senate and, with little or no Democrat support available, Republican leaders need to keep as many GOP votes as possible.  The House and Senate Budget committees approved their respective budgets on partyline votes Thursday.

 

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY., can only afford to lose three votes and still pass a budget.  The Senate is expected to have a marathon vote-a-rama where a wide range of amendmets will be considered, including some attacking crop insurance.  Because the budget resolution doesn't become law, the amendments are non-binding, but Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., said he would likely use the process to have "test votes" on cuts to crop insurance, with an eye toward later offering binding amendments to the agriculture appropriations bill that funds USDA.

 

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