Congress has signed budget appropriations for the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) into law. The Congress has allocated $448 billion to the DoD and $34.8 billion to the DHS for 2007. DoD appropriations reflect a continued need for funds to finance the...
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...
and that's a commitment I've made to everyone," Johnson said, suggesting that he would push to approve the 12 full-year spending bills individually after the election. "My encouragement to my Senate colleagues is to do your work, bring some appropriations bills to the floor and pass the...
The continuing resolution is needed because Congress is nowhere close to completing work on the dozen annual appropriations bills that fund much of the federal government. The House has passed five of the 12 bills, mostly along party lines. The Senate has p...
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 ...
6 As an example of its growth, Congress passed appropriations bills including more than $16.5 billion for earmarks in fiscal year 2008. Office of Management and Budget, Earmarks in 2008 Appropriations Bills, http://earmarks.omb.gov/2008_appropriations_home.html (last visited Feb. 7, 2009)....
The bill sets key Pentagon policy that lawmakers will attempt to fund through a follow-up appropriations bill. Lawmakers were keen to emphasize how the bill calls for a 5.2% boost in service member pay, the biggest increase in more than 20 years. The bill authorizes $886 billion for national...
Congress Passes Various Homeland Security Bills. 来自 EBSCO 喜欢 0 阅读量: 8 作者:Whitman,Cameron 摘要: Reports on bills passed by the United States Congress concerning homeland security. Appropriations review for various bills.年份: 2002 收藏 引用 批量引用 报错 分享 ...
The GOP-controlled House passed an appropriations bill for military construction and veterans affairs this year that would ban abortions at the VA in most cases and would also block hormone therapy and surgery for transgender veterans at the department. The VA currently allows for hormone therapy fo...
The government has repeatedly been on the brink of a shutdown since the end of last September. Unable to pass the annual appropriations bills before the start of the fiscal year on Oct. 1, Congress has relied on short-term extensions, known as continuing resolutions, to keep the government ...