House Approves Sweeping GOP Budget Blueprint

The nonbinding measure calls for dramatically revamping Medicaid and Medicare to pare trillions of dollars over the next decade. But it stands little chance of even reaching a vote in the Senate. Instead, it is likely to serve as an opening salvo in the debate over America's fiscal future and the 2012 election.

Garcelle Beauvais Genelle Frenoy Georgianna Robertson