Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Congressman Kevin Brady voted for a 2012 federal budget proposed by House Republicans that reverses the federal spending spree of the past two years and puts America back on a path to financial solvency. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's budget - which passed the House today - cuts $6.2 trillion in spending over the next decade, shrinks the size of the federal government, keeps taxes low and takes the first concrete steps to preserve the financially shaky Medicare and Medicaid programs.

"If you've lost hope that America's government will ever live within its means again and are frightened by the massive amount of debt this nation is amassing, the House Republican budget is the change in America's direction you've been waiting for," said Brady, a Republican from Texas. "We face a huge fight to pass it through the Democratically controlled Senate but this is a fight to put America back on a path to financial soundness and prosperity."

Brady, who helps lead House conservatives known as the Republican Study Committee, joined with 118 Republicans to support an alternative budget by the RSC that cuts spending more quickly and balances the budget within the decade. "It's tough medicine, no doubt, but it shows the American people just how deeply in debt we are as a nation and how difficult it will be to dig out of it," said Brady, who co-sponsored the conservatives' budget which failed to secure a majority of votes.