Capitol Hill- November 2011 Wrap Up!
The deadline for the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction came and went and neither party could agree on a deficit reduction plan. While the “Super Committee” failed in its task, Congress passed and the President signed the first Fiscal Year 2012 “minibus” spending bill. You may recall that this bill provides funding for research [...]
Capitol Hill- The Week in Review October 31st-November 4, 2011
The first fiscal year 2012 ‘minibus’ was passed in the Senate and has already had its first conference negotiations. The ‘minibus’ includes the Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS, Transportation-HUD, and Agriculture spending bills. Funding for research agencies like National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST), the National Space and Aeronautics Administration (NASA), the [...]
Capitol Hill-The Week in Review for October 24-28, 2011.
The House is In and now the Senate is Out! Which means little or no movement on FY 12 spending bills or minibuses. And with the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction’s November 23rd deadline looming, House and Senate leaders are nervous about the possibility of sequestration. The sequestration was defined in the BAC that [...]
Capitol Hill-The Week in Review for October 17-21, 2011.
The House was in recess until Monday October 24th The Senate Appropriations Committee released its FY 12 Interior and Environment spending bill and the full Senate began consideration of a three-bill minibus that includes Agriculture, Commerce, Justice and Science and Transportation, Housing and Urban Development. With about a month left in government spending authority, lawmakers [...]