Policy · 115th Congress
Senate Republicans Ready to Limp Into Border Wall Fight
</p> For fiscal 2019 specifically, Trump officials have requested $5 billion, which House appropriators provided in their version of the Homeland Security spending bill.
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Policy · 115th Congress
Hill Sends Big Chunk of Next Year’s Money to Trump, Minus His Border Wall
</p> The conference report on the $855.1 billion spending bill includes the stopgap spending measure plus the $674.4 billion Defense money bill and the $178.1 billion Labor-HHS-Education appropriations
Policy · 115th Congress
Budget Overhaul Panel Dances With Deadline
But its members will meet privately one more time before the lame duck session to discuss various proposals that could become part of a final bill.
Policy · 115th Congress
FAA Passage Likely, But Timing Unclear in Senate as Deadline Looms
</p> In addition to providing the first long-term FAA authority since 2012, the bill would authorize: </p> $1.7 billion for aid to areas affected by Hurricane Florence.
Policy · 115th Congress
These Farm Programs Will Turn Into Pumpkins Sunday If Congress Doesn’t Act
</p> The four are the principal negotiators trying to bridge differences between the House and Senate versions of the farm bill.
Policy · 115th Congress
How Congress Made CHIP a Budgetary Boondoggle
</p> The $7.7 billion figure is about $1 billion more in CHIP savings than contemplated in the initial House and Senate versions of the bill.
Policy · 115th Congress
A Workhorse and a Hard Charger Aim for Transportation Top Spot
</p> The next year, he cosponsored a similar Shuster bill that incorporated his recommendations to make the bill more acceptable to general aviation.
Policy · 115th Congress
Lawmakers Eye Cyber Bounties to Fix Bugs in Federal Networks
</p> The House Homeland Security Committee on Thursday by unanimous consent approved a Senate bill that would set up a pilot program at the department. The Senate passed the bill on April 17.
Policy · 115th Congress
Extra Hurricane Relief Cash Could Wait Until After Elections
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has more than enough money to assist states hit by Hurricane Florence and likely won’t need Congress to pass an emergency disaster aid bill in the coming weeks,
Policy · 115th Congress
Members Find Billions Beneath Pentagon Couch Cushions
</p> Cryptic explanations One of the biggest movements of money in this year’s final Defense bill came as a result of the Pentagon massively overestimating, for the second fiscal year in a row, how much
Policy · 115th Congress
Congress Again Blocks F-35 Transfers to Turkey
</p> A provision in the fiscal 2019 Defense spending bill would withhold any funds from being used to deliver the jets to Turkey until the secretaries of State and Defense send Congress a comprehensive
Policy · 115th Congress
Watershed Moment as Three Appropriations Bills Clear on Time
</p> The Senate adopted the conference report on the three-bill package Wednesday on a 92-5 vote.
Policy · 115th Congress
Legislators Reach Government Funding Agreement Through December 7
</p> House Appropriations Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen announced at a meeting of House and Senate conferees on the combined spending bill for Defense, and Labor-Health and Human Services-Education, that
Policy · 115th Congress
FAA Authorization Still Grounded in Senate
</p> “Not gonna do an extension,” House Transportation Chairman Bill Shuster said. “Thune and I are sticking tight to it.”
Policy · 115th Congress
SSTs Could Fly Again as Congress Targets Supersonic Ban
</p> The Senate bill that was advanced by the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee last year and now awaits floor consideration would direct the Transportation secretary to promulgate rules to
Policy · 115th Congress
Yucca Mountain Halted Again as GOP Aims to Retain Senate
</p> The outcome: Funding backed by the House to restart the Yucca process was dropped in the conference agreement on the three-bill spending package that includes the fiscal 2019 Energy-Water title,
Policy · 115th Congress
Trump Wants to Freeze It. But Federal Pay Isn’t Driving Deficits
</p> Comstock voted for the House version of the spending bill in July, which would allow Trump’s pay freeze to take effect.
Policy · 115th Congress
Need a Cave to Stash Your Oil? Feds Might Soon Have a Deal for You
</p> As to how much revenue the bill could generate, no official estimate was given.
Policy · 115th Congress
First Three Fiscal 2019 Spending Bills Readied for Floor
</p> The toplines for the three-bill conference report reflect the hard-fought bipartisan deal eliminating austere spending caps for fiscal 2019, the second leg of the two-year budget agreement reached
Policy · 115th Congress
Senators Get Informal as FAA Deadline Nears
</p> “For me, it’s the biggest sticking point,” he said. “I don’t know why a trucking issue is in an aviation bill.”