Something to watch:

GOP Plan Would Revamp CongressionalBudget Process.

The Wall Street Journal (1/27, A4, Rogers) reports on a Republican plan “to revamp Congress's annual budget process would reduce the number of spending bills required each year and break up the powerful appropriations panels charged with funding veterans, housing, science and environmental programs.” The plan “was outlined at a private meeting between the leaders of the House and Senate appropriations committees and Speaker Dennis Hastert (R., Ill.) and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R., Tenn.).”