The other Republican budget battle

Two senior Senate Republicans are preparing for a rare intraparty showdown over who will lead the Budget Committee, testing how big a platform the party will give one of the loudest conservative voices in the new GOP-controlled Congress.
The race between Jeff Sessions of Alabama and Mike Enzi of Wyoming will have critical implications for the GOP’s vision on nationwide budget policy, determine whether Sessions — one of the fiercest immigration-reform critics — will have a prime committee perch and show just how much seniority matters in today’s Senate...