The Senate plan would reach a balanced budget in 2013.

The Senate plan has two features that would be especially important if they end up in the final resolution.

But opponents of the Senate plan say they will fight it to the end.

House leaders made clear that they had no interest in the Senate plans.

In many respects, the Senate plan is short on details.

The Senate plan would provide about $3.5 billion over all.

But in practice the Senate plan poses no such threat.

The tax cuts in the Senate plan would mostly not appear until after the turn of the century, if at all.

There had been widespread concern in the administration about what form the Senate plan would take.

The Senate plan offered a similar idea at one stage, but now offers nothing.