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May 6, 2015

Wicker on federal budget: “We’re not going to wave the white flag”

Senate passes budget even as impasse on spending continues Senate Republicans celebrated on Tuesday after passing the first joint budget resolution in more than five years, but that success is just the start of the much more difficult task of funding the government. Republicans said the next step will be for the Appropriations Committee to…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
May 6, 2015

Cochran votes for Congressional budget plan

RELEASE: COCHRAN VOTES FOR BUDGET PLAN, LOOKS TOWARD APPROPRIATIONS PROCESS Plan Rejects President’s Tax & Spending Hikes, Sets Responsible Course to Balanced Budget WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, today voted for a budget resolution conference report that will provide a blueprint for the development of…