The Hill News

When the budget debate began, the Democrat position was to freeze spending at current levels. The House Republican Appropriations Committee came forward with a “bold” proposal to cut $33 billion in real spending from the budget.

Speaker Boehner then listened to his members and sent the appropriators back to the drawing board with instructions to find more cuts.

After leading a virtually unprecedented debate and allowing dozens of spending-cut amendments on the floor to be voted upon, Boehner’s House passed a bill to fund the government for the rest of the year with $61 billion in real spending cuts.

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