Current Status
President Bush signed the “Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance,
and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009” [P.L.
110-329] on September 30. This bill includes a continuing resolution
(CR) that provides funding at the FY 2008 level for many federal
programs, including those in the Labor-HHS-Education appropriation,
through March 6, 2009.
The new Congress will need to complete the FY 2009 Labor-HHS-Education
spending bill for the remainder of the fiscal year. At present,
it is not know whether the bills passed in this session by the Senate
Appropriations Committee and House Labor-HHS Subcommittee will be
used as a starting point for the final bill.
On June 26 the Senate Appropriations Committee approved its FY
2009 Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill (S.
3230) on a 26-3 vote. The committee filed the report (S.
Rpt. 110-410) to accompany the bill on July 8.
The House Appropriations Committee abruptly cut short consideration
of its Labor-HHS bill on June 26 after Republicans tried to force
votes on amendments related to expansion of domestic oil production.
Efforts by Republicans to force consideration of the Interior bill
to address rising fuel prices caused chaos and Democrats opted to
vote to adjourn. The House Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee
approved the bill on June 19.More>>
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