date:Jun 22, 2012
he also thanked Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD), not a member of the committee but a consistent partner with Grassley on that issue.
The bill trims more than $23 billion from federal spending over the next 10 years. Stabenow said it's probably the only opportunity to vote on deficit reduction in a bipartisan way on the Senate floor in the next number of months.
Roberts agreed that the bill will be a rare chance to trim federal spending with bipartisan support.
He said that the committee's markup o