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Updated 5/9/08 Just a quick update on the FY 2008 supplemental appropriations bills. Both House and Senate action on these bills, planned for today, was postponed until next week. The House action dissolved among Republican procedural hang-ups over the Democratic leadership’s plan to bring the bill directly to the floor and Democratic caucus disagreements about spending offsets and the war. We’ve not heard why the Senate Appropriations Committee markup was postponed. In terms of additional domestic spending, both bills were fairly conservative. The House leadership bill explicitly rejected many, many supplemental requests in order to keep the bill under the President’s requested level. The Senate was slightly, but not much, more expansive. Click here to see the House Fact Sheet http://appropriations.house.gov/pdf/FactSheet-Supplemental5-07-08.pdf The Senate Fact Sheet is attached. So far, we have not heard that either bill includes our priorities. We will use this extra time to continue to look for opportunities. We’ll send out more information to our members about this soon. |
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