senator, lindsey graham. we re following more breaking news, the republican tax bill clearing a very important hurdle tonight with the senate budget committee apeproving the measur. senator, we ll talk about that in a moment. but i want to go to cnn s congressional correspondent, sunlen serfaty right now. sunlen, tell us more about this important vote today and what happens next. well, what happens next, wolf, is this tax bill now heads to the full senate floor for a vote in front of the full senate. and it was remarkable that the fact of the matter is that just getting a vote out of the senate budget committee today was a difficult task for senate republicans. there was some drama leading into it. it was not a sure thing that this republican tax bill would get out of the budget committee. it ended up voting along party lines, but that fact really underscoring that there is considerable concern, consternation among republicans, about parts of that bill. you had senator ron johnson, w