Dems to GOP: Draft Your Own Budget

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff
Posted Mar 26, 2009 1:26 PM CDT
Dems to GOP: Draft Your Own Budget
Budget Director Peter Orszag testifies on Capitol Hill before the House Budget Committee hearing on the fiscal year 2010 federal budget.   (AP Photo)

Frustrated Senate Democrats today urged their GOP counterparts to stop criticizing President Obama’s proposed budget and provide an alternative, the Hill reports. “If it were easy to write a budget, then the Republicans would be writing one,” Dick Durbin said. Republicans responded that as the minority, that wasn’t their responsibility. “We will offer a series of alternatives by amendment,” a spokesman said. (More Congress stories.)

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