House to Vote on Three-Day Spending to Avert Shutdown
Source: Bloomberg
By Derek Wallbank and James Rowley - Jan 10, 2014
The U.S. House will take up a short-term spending bill next week to fund federal government operations past Jan. 15, House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers said.
The spending bill would provide funding at current levels for three days, through Jan. 18, Rogers said. He said he will introduce the short-term bill today and the House may vote on it as soon as Jan. 13. Government funding expires Jan. 15.
We expect this short extension will pass with bipartisan support, said Matt Dennis, a spokesman for House Appropriations Committee Democrats.
The move would give appropriators more time to agree on a $1.01 trillion spending bill to fund the government through Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year.
Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-10/house-to-vote-on-three-day-spending-to-avert-shutdown.html
muriel_volestrangler
(101,311 posts)Shouldn't they limit themselves to at least a month between the crises?
underpants
(182,791 posts)Just sayin'
thatgemguy
(506 posts)locdlib
(176 posts)I thought the Murray/Ryan deal addressed issues that could cause another potential gov't shutdown.
BumRushDaShow
(128,925 posts)The idiotic media sold people a bill of goods with their bullshit reporting. The "budget" is nothing but the outline ("ceiling", highest amount allowed) for spending. It has nothing to do with distributing the actual appropriations (authorization of funds for each Department/agency within the budget ceiling in Murray-Ryan, which needs to generally be line by line - they usually use past bills as templates and then plug in the new numbers and tweak for new authorities or removal of mandates, etc).
Without passage of the appropriations bills, the government WILL shut down again on January 15th.
Add to that was the stupid assumption that with approval of Murray-Ryan and then leaving for the winter vacation, somehow when they returned, in 2 weeks, both sides in both chambers would come up with something to vote on (probably as an Omnibus Appropriations to cover everyone). And in some cases, some members of the appropriations committees did spend some time during the winter break to come up with some ballpark legislation. But last year, while the Senate had actually come up with all of their Appropriations bills, the House was busy trying to repeal the ACA and did nothing on appropriations. So per this OP, we're back into the short-term extensions again - with the same idiotic reduced funding based on 2010 including the sequester amounts - and THAT is assuming that clown show Crudz doesn't pop up again to try to block the extension.
The media is a breathtaking FAIL.
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)I'm going to have to cancel my the insurance I bought through Covered California as it takes my entire part-time earnings.
We JUST went through this and I lost work for a month (my work has to start at the beginning of the month or there is no work for the month). We've just recovered from that and here we are again. More sleepless nights.
WhiteTara
(29,706 posts)was behind us. I hate the pukes...and I try so hard to feel compassion for all that it makes my head hurt.
NutmegYankee
(16,199 posts)Now they actually need to pass the appropriations bills to fund the depts. Expect a massive Omnibus bill.
WhiteTara
(29,706 posts)After they say they will do something, they play Lucy with the football.
godevil10
(63 posts)Earth_First
(14,910 posts)Rinse and repeat?