Ryan's budget proposal doesn't fly in House: Congressman's bill aimed to preserve Bush's tax cuts.

Byline: Craig Gilbert

Apr. 1--WASHINGTON -- As top Republican on the House budget panel, Janesville's Paul Ryan submitted the GOP alternative to the five-year Democratic spending plan passed by the House on Thursday. Among other things, the Ryan budget preserved President Bush's tax cuts (scheduled to lapse in the coming years), called for cuts in the projected growth of entitlement spending, ratified the increases in defense spending Bush has called for, and froze discretionary spending that isn't related to security. Ryan also carved out three exceptions to that freeze, where he'd spend more money, not less: cancer research, Community Development Block Grants and basic research done by places such as the National …