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Christopher S. Murphy of Connecticut, top Democrat on his chamber's Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, emphasized that the war doesn't factor into that debate.
The Senate voted overwhelmingly to pass the final defense authorization bill for fiscal 2023, clearing the measure for Biden's signature.
Christopher S. Murphy, D-Conn., said he couldn’t imagine that Senate Republicans would want to push appropriations negotiations into the early days of the next Congress.
Christopher S. Murphy, DeLauro’s Connecticut colleague and top Democrat on Homeland Security appropriations, said. “I don’t think we need to concede on a short-term CR. We can get a budget done.”
“Our feeling is that the Democrats have met a number of their domestic priorities previously” through 2021’s $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package and this year’s budget reconciliation law, which
Joe Manchin III’s, D-W.Va.’s permitting legislation, was dropped in the Senate earlier this week.
“Homeland [Security]’s toughest.”
Republicans who support home-state earmarks are locked in primary fights against those who don't as the practice faces an uncertain future.
The Pentagon has requested millions in additional funds to bolster antimissile defenses and cybersecurity.
The military's top general acknowledged that President Joe Biden's defense budget for fiscal 2023 could be undercut by high inflation.
For one thing, Appropriations subcommittee spending levels, known as 302(b)s, were set in early February, weeks before Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine.
Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee Chair Christopher S. Murphy, D-Conn., hadn’t received allocations yet as of Thursday afternoon.
Wicker drew a parallel to the former Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, which stretched on for a decade costing thousands of Soviet lives and ended with the U.S.S.R.’s ignominious retreat
Congress is considering legislation to require government contractors to reveal more about their pricing, setting off a partisan debate.
| Congress will soon decide whether to agree to a Biden administration proposal to cut spending on Defense Department programs that detect and counter diseases, even as COVID-19’s U.S. death toll
The final version disappointed Washington, D.C.’s delegate, Eleanor Holmes Norton, because it did not grant the D.C. mayor control over the city’s National Guard troops.
of dollars in U.S. aid continuing to flow in, the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction is painting a dire picture of conditions on the ground and the prospect for waste in the U.S.’s
It’s even more problematic for fiscal 2022 appropriations, since there’s little chance Republicans in the 50-50 Senate will go along with Appropriations subcommittee allocations, known as 302(b)s,
security-related Appropriations subcommittees are Dianne Feinstein of California on Energy-Water, which controls atomic weapons spending; Martin Heinrich of New Mexico for Military Construction-VA; Christopher S.
“The conferees expect the Department to quickly take the necessary steps to ascertain the root cause(s) and resolve the problem(s).”