Yesterday, the House Appropriations Committee (HAC) introduced a Continuing Resolution (CR) for FY2012 that would fund government agencies through November 18, 2011. The HAC-proposed CR (H.J.Res 79) would provide total funding for government agencies between October 1 and November 18 at a rate of $1.043 trillion, the amount for FY2012 set in the FY2012 Budget [...]
The House and Senate approved and the president signed the final FY2011 appropriations bill. The bill puts into place a deal reached by House and Senate leaders and the president last Friday that ended 14 months of deliberation on the FY2011 the budget request that was submitted in February 2010. The “Department of Defense and [...]
The president and the Congress stepped back from the brink of a government shutdown last night. In the eleventh hour, the President, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (N-NV) announced that they had reached agreement on a funding bill for FY2011. They also agreed to extend the FY2011 Continuing Resolution [...]
As the President and Congress continue to negotiate a settlement on the FY2011 appropriations bill to avoid a government shutdown, OMB took another step yesterday to implement shutdown plans. OMB Director Jacob Lew sent a memo to agency heads yesterday following up on guidance issued early in the week. Lew’s memo provided more detailed guidance [...]
With the end of the current FY2011 Continuing Resolution only three days away, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued guidance to federal employees on plans for an orderly shutdown of governmental activities. The message from OPM expressed hope that a successful resolution of the current budget impasse could be reached. However, it stated that [...]
Short-term Continuing Resolutions (CRs) for FY2011 are causing inefficiencies in DoD operations and contracting, according to Robert Hale, Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller/Chief Financial Officer). Testifying at a Senate defense subcommittee hearing on DoD efficiencies in the FY2012 budget, Hale said “we are talking a lot about efficiencies, but unfortunately, in FY2011 we are moving [...]
Today, President Obama signed the sixth FY2011 Continuing Resolution (CR) extension, which will keep the government running through April 8. The House passed the resolution on Tuesday (271-158) and the Senate passed the bill (87-13) yesterday. This latest CR cuts $6 billion from the previous CR level: $3.5 billion by cutting or terminating 25 non-DoD [...]
This afternoon, the House of Representatives passed, 271-158, a bill extending the FY2011 Continuing Resolution (CR) until April 8, 2011. The bill now goes to the Senate where it is expected to pass on Wednesday or Thursday. The White House has indicated the President will sign the extension before the current CR runs out on [...]
Yesterday, the Senate rejected both the House-passed FY2011 year-long Continuing Resolution (CR) and an alternative proposed by the Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC). Neither bill attracted the 60 votes required for passage under an agreement between Senate Democrat and Republican leaders. The House bill garnered only 44 yes votes, while the SAC bill could achieve only [...]
The full Senate is expected to consider today a FY2011 Continuing Resolution (CR) for the federal government, introduced by the Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC) that is $51 billion less than the presidents’ request. The SAC bill provides a much higher level of funding than the House-passed bill, which reduces the president’s total budget request by [...]