APPROPRIATIONS The blame game is raging between Bush and Congress as various budget deadlines are essentially ignored. Bush and Congress are accusing each other regularly of failing to listen to proposals and fixes for everything from failing to respond adequately to the energy crisis to the slumping economy. There’s a cut of about $1.8 in […]
APPROPRIATIONS A hard push by Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV to work budget bills through weekends and even Veterans Day floundered, giving way to other pressing schedules, e.g., the presidential campaign, and making another continuing resolution to extend past November 16 very probable. Whether or not the bills will be rolled up into an omnibus […]
APPROPRIATIONS With the August congressional recess ending September 4, there has been no real movement of appropriations bills since last month’s Federal Update report. For example, H.R.2643, the House Interior Appropriations bill, and Senate counterpart S.1696 both still await action on the Senate Calendar. As for natural resource management-related appropriations specific to the Northwest, all […]
APPROPRIATIONS H.R.2643, the Norm Dicks-sponsored House appropriations bill for the Department of the Interior, Environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, was sent to the Senate at the end of June. There it still awaits action on the Senate Legislative Calendar. Senate counterpart S.1696, sponsored by Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-CA, is […]
APPROPRIATIONS Dicks’ First After decades of congressional service, Congressman Norm Dicks, D-WA, has submitted his first major spending bill to the House of Representatives as chairman of Interior Appropriations. The bill would hike spending for the environment, national parks and global warming research. In leading floor debate, Rep Dicks said, “Mr. Chairman, I have waited […]
Download Priority Bills Download Federal Update Congress and other components of the Federal Government. Also attached is the latest PRIORITY FEDERAL BILLS list which provides the titles and status, etc. of federal bills pertaining to natural resources, the environment and other tribal-related bills. All comments welcome. Note: Congressman Jay Inslee will soon be introducing a […]
Download Word Document D’s AT THE HELM PELOSI FIRST WOMAN SPEAKER When Democrats seized control of Congress for the first time in 12 years, they did so with a jubilant Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, becoming the first woman ever to rise to speaker of the House. Rep. Pelosi will exert vast influence over the congressional […]
Download Word Document APPROPRIATIONS The mid-term election could have some eventual impacts on the appropriations process, as members of Congress prepare to journey to the nation’s capitol for a brief lame duck congress on November 13. Appropriations will be the most critical issue at hand. The continuing resolution, sent to the White House attached to […]
Download Word Document APPROPRIATIONS With the start of the 2007 fiscal year just hours away, the Senate has cleared a continuing resolution to keep funds for most government programs flowing through November 17. The stopgap measure will fund programs covered by all appropriations bills that are not enacted by the October 1 start of fiscal […]
Download Word Document APPROPRIATIONS The mood among Congressional appropriators (known on Capitol Hill as the third party after the R’s and D’s) has not exactly been triumphant as they have been forced to pull in purse strings by a $300 billion federal deficit. The House Interior-Environment Appropriations Bill (HR 5386), which provides the majority of […]
