The budget resolution passed on a vote of 231 to 197.

The Senate will start writing its budget resolution next month.

The next step is for the Senate to vote on its own budget resolution.

But the budget resolution means it cannot vote to spend more in total than the House will.

The Senate plans to write its budget resolution next month.

That is much less than the $19 billion tax increase called for by the original 1988 budget resolution passed last summer.

Congress can and often does ignore the budget resolution before the year is out.

Earlier this fall it passed a budget resolution to hold defense spending to $283 billion next year.

For the impact would not be limited to the overall budget resolution.

But the budget resolution this year was more important than usual for two reasons.