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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Fri Jan 10, 2014, 07:28 PM Jan 2014

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

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House to Vote on Three-Day Spending to Avert Shutdown (Original Post) Purveyor Jan 2014 OP
Hell, it's government shutdown season already? muriel_volestrangler Jan 2014 #1
Drama queens loves the drama underpants Jan 2014 #3
Not this shit again... n/t thatgemguy Jan 2014 #2
I'm really confused. locdlib Jan 2014 #4
NO. BumRushDaShow Jan 2014 #5
If they do this again, Le Taz Hot Jan 2014 #6
I thought the budget was in and all this shit WhiteTara Jan 2014 #7
They had passed a budget plan. (spending bill) NutmegYankee Jan 2014 #8
Thanks. I keep forgetting about the funding. WhiteTara Jan 2014 #9
I'm so tired of this I could puke. n/t godevil10 Jan 2014 #10
...and on the 18th? Earth_First Jan 2014 #11

muriel_volestrangler

(101,146 posts)
1. Hell, it's government shutdown season already?
Fri Jan 10, 2014, 07:42 PM
Jan 2014

Shouldn't they limit themselves to at least a month between the crises?

locdlib

(176 posts)
4. I'm really confused.
Fri Jan 10, 2014, 08:20 PM
Jan 2014

I thought the Murray/Ryan deal addressed issues that could cause another potential gov't shutdown.

BumRushDaShow

(127,266 posts)
5. NO.
Sat Jan 11, 2014, 10:42 AM
Jan 2014

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)
6. If they do this again,
Sat Jan 11, 2014, 10:57 AM
Jan 2014

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

(29,676 posts)
7. I thought the budget was in and all this shit
Sat Jan 11, 2014, 12:31 PM
Jan 2014

was behind us. I hate the pukes...and I try so hard to feel compassion for all that it makes my head hurt.

NutmegYankee

(16,177 posts)
8. They had passed a budget plan. (spending bill)
Sat Jan 11, 2014, 12:53 PM
Jan 2014

Now they actually need to pass the appropriations bills to fund the depts. Expect a massive Omnibus bill.

WhiteTara

(29,676 posts)
9. Thanks. I keep forgetting about the funding.
Sat Jan 11, 2014, 12:56 PM
Jan 2014

After they say they will do something, they play Lucy with the football.

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