HARRISBURG — Members of the Republican majority in the state House of Representatives circled the wagons Monday around their leaders’ $28.3 billion state budget blueprint, blocking consideration of Democratic amendments that would substantially increase spending for education and health care.

House Speaker Sam Smith ruled a series of Democratic amendments out of order on grounds they did not include cuts to offset the proposed new spending. Democrats used parliamentary tactics to argue their points on the floor, but efforts to salvage the amendments were rejected along nearly straight party lines.

“This bill takes money off the table first for our corporate tax cuts, then doles out the crumbs that are left for everyone else. It is time to put the interests of students, families and workers before chief executive officers,” said Rep. Joseph Markosek, the ranking Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, whose omnibus amendment encapsulating all the Democratic amendments also was barred from consideration.

The House GOP budget plan, modeled largely on what GOP Gov. Tom Corbett proposed in February, would boost public school funding by $100 million and cut business taxes by more than $300 million in the year that starts July 1. Among other things, it also would provide money to hire 300 new state troopers.

Democrats advocated more than tripling the increase in school funding, freezing the business tax cut and guaranteeing Pennsylvania’s participation in the federally funded Medicaid expansion.

A final House vote is anticipated Tuesday.

Appropriations Chairman William Adolph, R-Delaware, said sending the bill back to the committee for further work — as Markosek proposed — could make it difficult to put a 2013-14 budget in place on time. Besides, he noted, it contains no tax increases or new programs.