Congressional Republicans at Odds over Budget

NPR | By Andrea Seabrook

Published May 22, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

Disagreements among Republicans in Congress over how to handle the budget and the federal deficit has pitted some political icons against each other in recent days. NPR's Andrea Seabrook reports.

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