Legislative Alert: House Fails to Bring Budget Resolution to a Vote

After negotiations between conservative and moderate Republicans broke down over new budget rules and spending limits, House Republican leaders were forced to pull the $2.8 trillion fiscal year 2007 budget resolution (H Con Res 376) off the floor. Although the leaders said that they would attempt to hold a vote on the nonbinding resolution after lawmakers return from a two-week recess, the intraparty fighting that held up the vote could mean that Congress will not pass a budget resolution this year.