Jobs plan from Senate Republicans unveiled

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So they’re planning to roll out a jobs plan that amounts to a conservative’s dream agenda: targeting labor and environmental regulations, enacting a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution, lowering corporate and individual tax rates, encouraging energy production and expanding free trade, according to a draft obtained by POLITICO.

The effort is being led by a trio of strange bedfellows — Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, a wonky former head of George W. Bush’s budget office, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, a libertarian-minded tea party favorite, and Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the party’s 2008 presidential nominee.