The Senate Budget Committee unveiled the chairman's mark for its version of the FY 2014 budget earlier this week (See WPI 12 March). The committee adopted that plan by a party-line vote of 12-10 on Thursday night after two days of debate with no amendments. This is the first budget reported out of the Senate Budget Committee in four years. On the House side, the chairman's mark similarly was passed by a party-line vote of 22-17 after 22 of 23 amendments were defeated.Ranking Minority Member Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama) noted that savings are reduced from $1.85 trillion to $700 million and also includes a $1.5 trillion increase in revenues. That difference comes from the contention that the Senate budget "turned off" the sequester. However, a...

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