The omnibus appropriations bill passed by Congress and signed by President Bush late last month includes language to provide another 12-month exemption for the Universal Service Fund from the Anti-Deficiency Act as well as to prevent the FCC from implementing a restriction to use universal service ...
Sen. Patty Murray, the Democratic chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, urged House Republicans not to “follow the loudest voices on the far right” in the negotiations for the full-year bill. “You cannot strike a deal to govern with people who...
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, said Americans expect Congress to govern and work in a bipartisan fashion. “Some of my colleagues would see that this government would shut down and don’t care how hurtful that would be,” DeLauro said. House ...
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for Responsible Federal Budget, recently said in a statement that the stopgap spending bill will hopefully allow Congress to pass appropriations bills in the next few weeks before the con...
first freedom in the Bill of Rights. Second, our pro-life ethic compels us to protect healthcare workers from the coercive power of the profit-seeking, on-demand abortion industry. Conscience protection policies in appropriations are essential for the protection of mill...
billion Thursday as part of a$1.2 trillion fiscal 2024 appropriations package that lawmakers hope to pass before a Saturdayshutdown deadline.The legislation claws back $20.2 billion in modernization funding for the tax-collection agency thatDemocrats had included in the 2022 tax-and-climate bill. ...
"The House is going to act so government will not shut down," McCarthy said, after an early-morning meeting with the Republican conference Saturday. He told reporters that it would give lawmakers more time to finish work on individual appropriations bills. ...
I'm offering these up as trying to work with him to try to figure out a path forward in this," Aderholt said. "Anybody on the appropriations committee, and certainly the chairman, wants to see a bill that can easily go through the House or the Senate, and I think this process makes...
“We’re on it. We're going to continue to focus on that until we get them done,” said Republican Representative Dave Joyce, who chairs the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security. “We don't have a lot of time. And there's going to be a lot...
In January, Congress approved a stopgap funding bill that would keep the government open into early March, buying lawmakers more time to finish the formal appropriations process for fiscal year 2024, which began on Oct. 1, 2023. Congress previously approved stopgap funding measures in September and...