Interim spending bill set to reach floor amid shaky vote count
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., will now try to muscle the 91-page bill through the House with Republican support this week, with few Democrats if any expected to back the measure.
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Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., will now try to muscle the 91-page bill through the House with Republican support this week, with few Democrats if any expected to back the measure.
The much skinnier temporary spending package dropped most unrelated legislative riders but has a key addition: It would suspend the statutory debt limit, currently set to be reinstated Jan. 2, for two
"If you have a CR with the debt limit, at least you are getting part of the problem done," Hern said. ’Deserves to be voted out’ Anger over the massive, 1,547-page year-end spending bill among the GOP
The Senate cleared the package for President Joe Biden’s signature around 2 a.m., a couple hours after the 11:59 p.m.
Schumer took to the floor at 2 a.m.
The 2,741-page bill, the result of weeks of hard bargaining, was unveiled in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, barely three days before current stopgap funding will expire.
There’s also a timing issue since the 5,593-page package hasn’t been officially enrolled yet, which is necessary before it’s even sent to the president’s desk.
Senate Republicans from coal- and natural gas-producing states argued that they discovered the wind credit “surprise” when reviewing the massive 5,593-page bill, and cited a deal cut five years ago to
jwp-video n=”1″] A $12.5 billion emergency spending allocation for veterans health care remains an obstacle to an overall deal, as well as Democratic opposition to President Donald Trump’s request for $2
“They’re just not on the same page on COVID, and I don’t see much incentive to agree to an omni.”
Congressional Democrats and Republicans have signaled that they see an extension of the current law as inevitable, and the White House, in a four-page document released Sept. 3, indicated its willingness
Watch: A behind-the-scenes look at CQ’s 2018 Vote Studies [jwp-video n=”2″] The bill also would establish a commission, similar to the Pentagon’s Base Realignment and Closure process, to
The 1,665-page legislation was published online just after 2 a.m.
For one, while Washington enacted in December a fiscal 2017 defense authorization act that requires increases in manpower in the services and bigger paychecks for military personnel, the roughly $2 billion