Democrats’ Spending Bill Strategy – Roll Call

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Democrats’ Spending Bill Strategy

CQ Budget Podcast, Episode 113

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., says he'd like to have all 12 spending bills done by the end of June. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

By David Lerman, Jennifer Shutt and Toula Vlahou

Posted June 10, 2019 at 12:17pm

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House Democrats are packaging spending bills with the aim of completing all 12 by the end of the month, a goal that is likely to generate a lot of policy debates and amendments, explains Jennifer Shutt in this episode of the CQ Budget podcast. The first package contains five bills including the two largest, Defense and Labor-HHS-Education.

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