text: Senator Warner led an effort on the Senate floor today calling on Republican colleagues to allow budget negotiations to begin with the U.S. House of Representatives. Senator Warner, a member of the Budget Committee and a leader since 2010 in bipartisan efforts to reach a compromise on meaningful deficit and debt reduction, reminded his colleagues that the Senate passed its budget resolution 46 days ago. Since then, however, Republican senators repeatedly have blocked efforts to name budget conferees to sit down and work to resolve the differences between the Senate and House budget resolutions. (staff)