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Senate panel to vote on three spending bills this week
The Senate Appropriations Committee will vote on three fiscal 2009 spending bills this week, including Agriculture, Military Construction, and State and Foreign Operations appropriations legislation.
The panel will meet Thursday at 2 p.m., according to an updated schedule released Monday.
The schedule the committee had put out Friday included only a hearing that will be convened by Labor-HHS Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, slated for Wednesday morning, on fiscal 2009 budget needs of the National Institutes of Health.
The markup announcement comes after the committee Thursday approved the Transportation-HUD, Energy and Water, and Financial Services appropriations bills. The full committee has approved six of the 12 appropriations bills, including the Commerce-Justice-Science, Homeland Security and Labor-HHS measures passed last month.
At the markup Thursday, Appropriations Committee Chairman Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., reiterated his intention to finish work on all the appropriations bills by the end of the month and scheduled for July 24 full committee markups of the Interior, Defense, and Legislative Branch appropriations bills.
COMMENTS
- Hurray for Sen. Byrd and the Appropriations Committee! Such dedication! Great Job! It’s been rumored the approval of FY09 Budget will be delayed until March 2009. It’s unacceptable that Congress cannot pass a Budget before the fiscal year starts in October without going into a Continuing Resolution. I cannot believe the Presidential elections will delay the approval of the Budget. God help our Nation! The Budget may not be your Checkbook but you should be guarding it like your own and quit the “tit for tat” between the political parties. You were voted into your position for the betterment of the United States and this should be foremost in your mind on all issues. The NSPS (Pay for Performance) has been shoved down Civilians throat and should apply to Congress also (this is not a situation of “do as I say; not as I do”). Civilian Worker Posted July 16, 2008 9:58 AM
- All of these bills are asking for more than the country can afford. Bush will veto them and the agencies will be able to cut personnel to pay for the 3.9% pay raise. I see furloughs around the corner Dan ketter Posted July 15, 2008 10:37 AM
