Top of the Hour: Congress Rejects President Obama’s Budget Proposal, Morning Headlines

The Takeaway

Today, members vote on House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s plan (R-Wis.) after the GOP-dominated house rejected both President Obama’s proposed budget and a bipartisan measure that combined spending cuts with tax hikes. In other headlines, Supreme Court justices begin their private debate over health care reform; an ambush of a NATO supply convoy in Afghanistan killed 19 during a 3-hour fire fight; and the emir of Kuwait is the only Gulf Arab leader to attend the Arab League summit in Baghdad.

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