House Republicans have again failed to advance the fiscal year 2024 defense appropriations bill, with several members of the GOP siding with Democrats to help to sink it by a vote of 212-216. Today marks thethird timeinrecent daysthat the House was unable to begin debate on the bill, which...
Defense appropriations bill still stuck in House.Gildea, Kerry
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer arrives to speak with reporters after completing work to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2024 for military activities of the Department of Defense, at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., July 27, 2023.J. Scott Applewhite/AP Over ...
The House passed the compromise version of the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, an annual must-pass bill setting policy for the Pentagon, by 350-80, far exceeding the two-thirds majority required to pass the legislation and send it for a vote in the Senate. The fiscal...
A contingent of hard-right Republicans in the House are opposed to a short-term funding extension and want deeper spending cuts. Theytwice defeatedMcCarthy's efforts to advance the defense spending bill last week, and have vowed to oppose what's known as a "continuing resolution," which would...
The House Appropriations Committee advanced legislation Thursday that failed to override President Biden’s 2025 pay plan.
Although the president has the initial responsibility for determining the proposed level of appropriations, once estimates for the next fiscal year are submitted to Congress, a single budget bill is not enacted, but rather a number of appropriation bills for various departments and agencies are ...
REP. COLE: Every appropriations bill is bipartisan at the end of the day, they just work that way. So most of these- and something like FISA ought to be bipartisan. I actually think he's, you know, empowered the center and marginalized the extremes on...
SENATE VOTED IN FAVOR OF $95 BILLION INTERNATIONAL SPENDING BILL, THERE MAY BE ANOTHER AROUND THE CORNER House Republicanshave blocked their own bills — drawn up with the blessing of GOP leaders — from hitting the House floor a staggering six times in the past eight months. The House usuall...
Last month, he voted against H.R. 5692, the Ukraine Security Assistance and Oversight Supplemental Appropriations Act, which passed. The bill appropriates federal dollars to assist Ukraine's military in its defense against Russia and establishes an inspector general's office to overse...