Posts Tagged ‘continuing resolution’

With bipartisan agreement in the Senate last week to adopt the discretionary spending limit from last August’s Budget Control Act, battle lines over fiscal 2013 appropriations are stark, if not all that far apart. While the Senate Appropriations Committee made plans to mark up the federal government’s 12 spending bills using a cap of $1.047 trillion, House appropriators next week are expected to allocate spending among the 12 appropriations bills using the lower, $1.028 trillion ceiling from the budget resolution drafted by Budget Chairman Paul Ryan …

The threat of a federal shutdown likely has been averted after lawmakers struck a deal Thursday night over the omnibus covering nine fiscal 2012 spending bills, reported the Hill newspaper. Appropriators from both parties expressed confidence that the House and Senate would approve the conference agreement Friday before the current continuing resolution funding most federal agencies runs out …

Despite reaching agreement on a nine-bill omnibus, Democrat conferees reportedly have held off signing the conference agreement for the fiscal 2012 spending package to force Republicans to stay in Washington and negotiate a deal to extend a one-year reduction in payroll taxes …

Of the nine FY 2012 spending measures House and Senate appropriators need to finish negotiating, the two that allocate funding for the military, defense and military construction, are in very good shape. The defense spending bill is within days of being completed and milcon already has been finished …

Senate and House appropriators have agreed to provide $518 billion for the fiscal 2012 defense spending bill, which would represent a $22 billion cut from the level the president requested at the beginning of the year, reported CQ Today …

House and Senate appropriators are continuing to hash out differences in the nine remaining fiscal 2012 spending bills, aiming to finish work on a massive omnibus before the existing continuing resolution runs out Dec. 16. Bipartisan negotiations on most of the bills are done, with lawmakers still negotiating only the most contentious issues …

The House and Senate last week approved the conference report for a minibus containing the first three of the government’s fiscal 2012 spending bills along with a continuing resolution to keep the remaining federal agencies open through Dec. 16. The stopgap gives lawmakers four weeks to approve the other nine spending bills, a feat they plan to accomplish by wrapping them up into a massive, omnibus …

Despite the relative ease with which the Senate was able to advance a “minibus” for three of the government’s 12 fiscal 2012 spending bills, the most likely scenario for clearing the remaining measures is a massive, nine-bill omnibus. Rep. Harold Rogers, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, described the strategy Wednesday …

A House-Senate conference committee hashing out differences between the two chambers’ versions of three fiscal 2012 spending bills ditched language urging the Economic Development Administration to provide support to defense communities affected by BRAC closures or mission growth through its various economic development assistance programs …

Two recent articles shoot down catastrophic predictions that a million or more jobs would be lost if defense spending is cut by $1 trillion over the next decade in a worst-case scenario. In September, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta stated that 1.5 million Americans would lose their jobs, resulting in a 1 percentage point increase in the unemployment rate …