Senate Budget Committee chairman Kent Conrad (D., N.D.) has announced that he plans to make an announcement later today about the status of a Senate budget resolution:

Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) said Thursday he will make an announcement later in the day about a 2012 budget resolution, but he did not say he would produce a budget resolution at that time, and sources close to the matter said it is unlikely.
“There will be a budget,” he said. “The question is the timing, and the question is how do we maximize the chance to get done what has to be done in the interest of the country.”
Conrad signaled that the resolution will be used to move any bipartisan compromise agreed to by the Biden deficit talks and that the resolution might not appear until those talks conclude.

On the homepage, I examine the Democrats’ disarray that has brought us now to day 750 since the Senate has passed a budget:

Republicans argue that Democratic dysfunction can be attributed to the panic that often sets in when one side realizes it is losing the fight. Basically, Democrats are still struggling to reconcile the public’s demand for spending restraint — voiced emphatically in the 2010 midterms — with their intractable aversion to the idea. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee, sums up their dilemma as follows: “They cannot bring forth a budget their members support that the American people will support, and they understand that. . . . And they’ve got a big problem.”
Sen. Mark Kirk (R., Ill.) told reporters that Democratic leaders do not want to finish the budget process out of fear that it could open the door to “budget reconciliation,” a provision that would allow the Senate to forgo the usual 60-vote requirement and pass a budget by simple majority. “The 51 votes are actually on our side of the issue, not theirs,” Kirk said. “The Conrad budget is a political document. While the country is moving right, it moves left.”

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