The Medicare split is the first indication of major differences on the budget between Republicans in the House and Senate during the 112th Congress.
Senate Republicans are having nothing to do with it. They realize they can't win the Senate in 2012 if they join their House colleagues in Medicare "reform."
Ryan’s Medicare plan, supported by all but four House Republicans, has been panned by Democrats as a voucher program that “would end Medicare as we know it.”
Six months after their historic triumphs in the 2010 elections, Republicans are now treading more carefully on cutting Medicare.
Some House Republicans got an earful during the April recess over the Ryan plan, and the negative feedback now has GOP leaders in a bind.
While sticking by the policies in the Ryan proposal, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and his lieutenants have indicated they won’t seek to pass the specific Medicare provisions through the House because they have little chance of being enacted by Obama and the Democratic-controlled Senate. ...The Hill
