Health deadlines pile up as Congress adjourns for August
The Finance Committee, meanwhile, approved a draft bill that would address restrictions and oversight of pharmacy benefit managers by a vote of 26-1.
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The Finance Committee, meanwhile, approved a draft bill that would address restrictions and oversight of pharmacy benefit managers by a vote of 26-1.
No. 1 on the list is Energy-Water Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Chuck Fleischmann, R-Tenn., who secured $273.3 million, mostly for the Army Corps of Engineers’ Chickamauga Lock project in Chattanooga
The Senate bill would provide more for military construction and housing — including $1 billion more for earmarks — than the House version.
Despite the House Armed Services Committee’s 58-1 vote to advance the bill last month, Democrats said with near unanimity that they could not support the bill in its amended form.
He ran a targeted campaign, and he said some things that were entirely untrue, but in a district that’s basically 50-50, neither of us was going to win by more than 1 or 2 points, and I won by 2.
The Massie provision seeks to light a fire under lawmakers by putting a Jan. 1 deadline on the process.
Some of the pressure on that need may be relieved by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which allocates $1 billion for middle mile grants.
While spending in those two bills would grow by close to 1 percent combined from what the Senate panel released initially last year, the new Senate Appropriations leadership this year would cut earmarked
The fiscal 2023 defense policy bill boosted the National Defense Stockpile by $1 billion specifically to acquire critical minerals.
Under the June budget law, if all 12 appropriations bills are not enacted by Jan. 1, 2024, then defense and nondefense spending caps would be cut in fiscal 2024 to 1 percent below the fiscal 2023 levels
The Biden administration’s long-awaited allocation of high-speed internet funding will give 19 states at least $1 billion each in federal aid from a 2021 infrastructure law, with Alaska, West Virginia,
Vilsack said another $450 million in grants will be awarded in $90 million tranches each quarter, with application periods starting July 1, 2023, and going through Sept. 30, 2024.
Armstrong pointed to a request for information released March 1 by the CPSC as evidence that the agency was in fact seeking to move forward with a ban.
That figure is 1 percent below a continuing resolution at fiscal 2023 levels.
They said the 3 percent defense spending increase allowed in the debt limit deal for the coming fiscal year, and a 1 percent increase allowed the following year, amount to cuts after adjusting for inflation
The bill would suspend the debt limit until Jan. 1, 2025, pushing it past the November 2024 elections. The debt limit was last raised in December 2021 to $31.4 trillion.
In fiscal 2025, defense spending would be capped at $895 billion, just a 1 percent increase from the previous year.Â
Still, a sizable chunk of the conference is planning to oppose the bill because they don’t think it cuts spending enough — especially in exchange for suspending the debt limit until Jan. 1, 2025, an estimated
That’s just $1 billion lower than the comparable figure this current fiscal year, officials said.
As described by sources familiar with the accord, the nation’s borrowing cap would be suspended until Jan. 1, 2025, avoiding another market-rattling fight during an election year.