Senate Democrats unveiled a sequester replacement plan Thursday that would achieve $110 billion in deficit reduction over 10 years, half in new revenue and half in spending cuts, according to a press release from Budget Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-WA). The spending cuts would be split equally between domestic programs and defense. The Democratic proposal, titled the American Family Economic Protection Act, would replace the sequester through Jan. 2, 2014.
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