GOP Friction Fouls Action on Agencies' Funding As Turkey Time Nears

[Khephra]

(I had to cut a few words to make it fit..sorry, mods!)

GOP Friction Fouls Action on Agencies' Funding As Turkey-Dinner Time and Adjournment Near

Republican control of the White House and Congress this year hasn't ended one Washington fall tradition that is as predictable as Thanksgiving turkey.

Many of the 13 annual bills needed to fund government departments and agencies through next September are hung up in money and policy wrangles, forcing much of the federal establishment to operate under temporary measures known as "continuing resolutions."

Democrats are on the fringes of these battles. The disputes are mainly between Republicans in the House and Senate, or in some cases between the White House and GOP lawmakers.

For example, despite a White House veto threat, some GOP lawmakers in both houses want to use the bill funding the Commerce Department to revise media ownership rules announced earlier this year by the Federal Communications Commission. GOP leaders, fearing further amendments, have yet to bring the bill to the Senate floor.

(More...two pages long)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20205-2003Nov9.html

[foo_bar]

1. the headline's three pages wide

in the NYPost it'll be Herky Turkey: Lawmakers Cry Fowl