Federal Government Policy and Business

Senate up next after House passes bold conservative budget

AZ Central: WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate is up next after House Republicans pushed through a boldly conservative budget eliminating deficits over the next decade by cutting deeply into Medicaid, food stamps and welfare, and repealing the president's health care law.

The House version passed on a party-line vote of 228-199, a victory for Speaker John Boehner, who kept his often fractious caucus in line partly by offering them several alternatives to vote on in a tactic known as "Queen of the Hill." In the end the leadership-backed plan triumphed, an ambitious document calling for $5 trillion in deficit reduction, increased defense spending and major transformations in both the tax code and Medicare.

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