Reports on the United States Senate Appropriations Committee's approval of a VA-HUD spending bill that will allocate funding to the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development. Call from the Investing in Communities Coalition to increase funding of several government programs; Provisions of the bill; ...
Tester has served as the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s defense panel for the last three years, helping guide annual funding decisions for the Department of Defense.
Senate Appropriations Committee of the fiscal 2013 Military Construction-Veterans Affairs (VA) spending bill on May 22, 2012. The bill meets the funding request of 104 million dollars for an integrated electronic health-record system for the Veterans Affairs and the Defense Department by U.S. ...
During a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies hearing last month, Mike Sicilia—the executive vice president for industries at Oracle, whichacquiredCerner in June—told lawmakersthat the company launched a ...
Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), who controls federal spending as chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, has also expressed concern about cutting staff levels at Mann-Grandstaff. Murray noted in astatement last weekthat "there is no question" that VA has the funds to keep the...
Bills in both the House and Senate would have required most new local government buildings to include renewable energy infrastructure, especially solar. The House bill, though unopposed, was killed by Democrats in Appropriations because a fiscal impact statement erroneously said it might cost something...
including alternatives to doing painful experiments on the same animals we keep as pets and rely on as service dogs. AMVETS appreciates the lawmakers in the House and Senate who are demanding greater accountability in how taxpayers dollars are spent in order to modernize and improve VA resear...
Remy, who was confirmed by the Senate in July, responded that the VA had organized patient safety concerns into nine domains: order management; administration of medicine; pharmacy; suicide risk; tracking and documentation; identity; ambulatory care; referrals and consults; and roles, positio...
The measure reported out of the House Appropriations Committee this year, meanwhile, provides only $75 million. {mosads}The D.C., Maryland and Virginia local governments have matched the federal government’s allocation at about $50 million each to provide funding for Metro. Lawmakers representing...
Reports the approval of the Senate Appropriations Committee on the Veterans Administrations, Housing and Urban Development and Independent Agencies appropriations in the U.S. Focus of the bill on funding municipal housing and community development programs; Measures approved by the committee for the ...