Labor-HHS funding bill advances for the first time in six years
Source: The Hill
The House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday advanced a $153 billion bill funding the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Education and Labor for the next fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1.
It marks the first time in six years the full committee advanced a funding measure for those departments, which would receive $3.7 billion less than current funding levels and $14.6 billion less than President Obama’s request for fiscal 2016.
Appropriators advanced the bill in a 30-21 vote after a nearly seven-hour markup.
The bill targets ObamaCare by blocking discretionary funding to the healthcare law — a key elemnet of the law which the Supreme Court is expected to rule on in the next week.
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