Capitol Hill-The Week in Review for October 10-14, 2011.
While the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction works on the details of how to reduce the deficit and balance the budget, House and Senate committees were working on getting their views on deficit reduction to the committee, by the Friday October 14th deadline. In the meantime, the Senate began deliberation on a three-spending bill packaged deemed as a “minibus”. This “minibus” includes Agriculture, Transportation-Housing and Urban Development, and Commerce-Justice-Science spending bills. The House has yet to decide if it will try and pass an omnibus or move to pass several minibuses, before or after next weeks recess.