Democrats have signaled in recent days that they would prefer a shorter-term funding measure that would give appropriators more time to flesh out new spending bills. The top Democratic appropriators, Sen. Patty Murray of Washington and Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, introduced a continuing resol...
The House has passed a $460 billion package of spending bills that would keep money flowing to key federal agencies through the remainder of the budget year.
House of Representatives began debating the first of 12 fiscal 2024 spending bills on Wednesday, as lawmakers edged toward a looming showdown with the Democratic-led Senate that could trigger a government shutdown this autumn. The House voted 217-206, roughly along party lines, to adopt a ...
The article reports on the status of fiscal 2008 appropriations bills in the U.S. House of Representative. Port and rail security grants as well as most military construction accounts in the two spending bills are over 2007 levels. Democrats led by Appropriations Chairman David Obey wanted to ...
Washington— House Republicans voted to advance four conservative spending bills on Tuesday in a long-sought display of unity that nonetheless doesn't move Congress any closer to preventinga government shutdown. The relatively routine vote to bring the bills to the House floor for debate gave Speak...
The House on Thursday passed a spending bill that would prevent a government shutdown. The “minibus” appropriations bill, which contains the 2012 Agriculture, Commerce, Justice, Transportation and Housing appropriations bills and is backed by GOP leadership, passed by a vote of 298 to 121, with...
WASHINGTON - A $1.7 trillion spending bill financing federal agencies through September and providing more aid to a devastated Ukraine cleared the House on Friday as lawmakers race to finish their work for the year and avoid a partial government shutdown. The bill passed mostly along party lines...
Spending bills typically come with specific funding directives for key programs, but hundreds of those directives fall away under the legislation. So the administration will have more leeway to reshape priorities. For example, a Democratic memo said the bill would allow the administ...
The lower chamber voted 366-34 to approve the bill, which would fund the government at the current levels until mid-March, providing lawmakers with additional time to negotiate new spending bills. All lawmakers voting to ...
The $1.1 trillion spending deal easily passed the House of Representatives Friday after weeks of negotiations to fund the government through September.