The budget resolutions are non-binding, fiscal blueprints that guide the Appropriations Committees as they undertake their work.

The result is a recently released fiscal blueprint bearing more common sense than any budgets proposed by mayors or governors in the last 10 years.

"California needs a new fiscal blueprint," Mr. Davis said in Sacramento.

The fiscal blueprint approved today by the House would cut $283 billion, or 15 percent, from projected spending on Medicare over the next seven years.

Paul's office was one of only three in Washington to produce an entire fiscal blueprint for the federal government, a promise he made while campaigning in 2010.

The proposed fiscal blueprint is a striking departure from the austere budgets that were a hallmark of the first three years of the Mayor's tenure.

Senate Is Struggling With the House vote, the budget process remains in limbo until the Senate completes its own version of the fiscal blueprint.

The committee sent the fiscal blueprint to the full Senate on a 11-to-9 vote along party lines after three days of debate.

The bubble-gum and shoestring budget of 1992 was their fiscal blueprint.

Two years and $5.6 billion in new taxes later, Governor Florio has yet to deliver a realistic fiscal blueprint for our state.