House and Senate leaders this week agreed to a six-month FY2013 Continuing Resolution (CR). This action would avoid the uncertainty of a possible government shutdown on October 1 and essentially remove it as a campaign issue. Final action on the FY2013 appropriations would fall to the next Congress. In announcing the agreement, House Speaker John [...]
With the current Continuing Resolution (CR) set to expire Friday December 16 it appears likely that Congress will need to pass another CR to avoid a government shutdown. House and Senate conferees have essentially completed work on a final FY2012 appropriations bill, but some final details remain unsettled. This bit of unfinished appropriations business and [...]
Today, President Obama signed a bill (passed by the House and Senate yesterday) extending the FY2012 Continuing Resolution until December 16. The CR extension is included in a "minbus" appropriations bill that funds five agencies in three appropriations bills: Agriculture, Commerce/Justice/Science, and Transportation/HUD. This is the third FY2012 CR. The first funded agencies until October 4 and [...]
Congressional conferees completed action on the FY2012 “minibus” appropriations bill Monday night and forwarded it to the House and Senate floors for final approval. The bill includes about $182 billion for the Agriculture, Commerce/Justice/Science, and Transportation/HUD appropriations bills and provides $2.3 billion in disaster assistance funding for these agencies. The House and Senate are expected [...]
Last week there were signs of life in congressional consideration of FY2012 appropriations bills. After many weeks of little formal activity on appropriations in either chamber, the Senate voted to proceed on a bill that combines three FY2012 appropriations bills into one. The so-called “Minibus” appropriations bill, including the Agriculture, Commerce/Justice/Science, and Transportation/HUD bills, will [...]
President Obama signed a FY2012 Continuing Resolution (CR) that will keep the government running until November 18, 2011. The Senate had passed the CR last week, but because the House was in recess, Congress agreed to a stopgap CR until Oct 4 to allow the House time to consider the bill when it returned. Yesterday, [...]
The House today approved a Senate-passed FY2012 Continuing Resolution (CR) that will keep the government running until October 4. The House, which is currently in recess, convened in a pro forma session at 11:00am and approved the short-term CR by unanimous consent at 11:05am. The bill now goes to the president who is expected to [...]
Senate Democrats and Republicans reached an agreement yesterday and passed a FY2012 Continuing Resolution (CR) through November 18 (79Y-12N) and sent it to the House. The Senate-passed CR calls for funding government agencies between October 1 and November 18 at a rate of $1.043 trillion, the amount for FY2012 set in the Budget Control [...]
Early this morning, the House passed (219Y-203N) a FY2012 Continuing Resolution (CR) that would keep the government operating until November 18, 2011. Passage came a little more than a day after the House had rejected essentially the same bill. On Wednesday, the House failed to approve the CR as 48 Republicans voted against the bill [...]
Yesterday afternoon, the House rejected (195Y-230N) a FY2012 Continuing Resolution (CR) bill that would keep the government operating until November 18, 2011. The proposed CR would fund government agencies between October 1 and November 18 at a rate of $1.043 trillion, the amount for FY2012 set in the Budget Control Act of 2011. The House [...]