Legislative Background on Medicare and the Budget
Recent Action in Congress
Although there is broad agreement in Congress that changes are needed to prevent the Medicare program from running out of money, the two parties disagree about how and when to tackle the problem. Republican Budget Proposal. On April 15, by a vote of 235 to 193, the House passed H. Con. Res. 34, the Republican leadership’s Fiscal Year 2012 budget resolution, introduced by Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan (WI-R). The proposal envisions reducing the deficit by some $6 trillion more over the next decade than a budget released by the White House earlier in the year. It would make deep…
