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Appropriations
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Capital Thinking
Senate Considering 3 Bills: FY 2015 Agriculture Spending; Commerce, Justice, Science; Transportation and Housing and Urban Development
Legislative Activity FY 2015 Agriculture, Rural Development, and FDA Appropriations On Tuesday, June 17, the Senate is expected to consider the FY 2015 agriculture spending bill, which also allocates funds…
Capital Thinking
Senate Anticipates Its First FY 2015 Appropriations Minibus
LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITY FY 2015 Appropriations Action This week the Senate is anticipated to bring up its first FY 2015 appropriations minibus, a package including the Commerce-Justice-Science (S. 2437/Rept. 113-181), Transportation-Housing…
Capital Thinking
Senate Appropriations Committee Hold Hearings on the FY2015 Budget
Senate Legislative Activity The Senate Appropriations Committee will continue to hold hearings on the FY 2015 Budget this week. See this week's Budget and Appropriations Capital Thinking Blog Post for further details.…
Health Industry Washington Watch
Omnibus Government Spending Signed to Fund HHS, Other Departments
President Obama has signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2014, which provides $1.012 trillion in discretionary funding for the operations of the federal government through September 30, 2014.…
Capital Thinking
Lawmakers Face Short Timeline to Move on FY 2014 Appropriations Measure
Legislative Branch Activity Budget Lawmakers are facing an extremely abbreviated timeline to move a $1.012 trillion appropriations measure for FY 2014 that would cover government operations through September 30. Both…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
OMB Government Memo on Laspe of Appropriations
The memo from the Office of Management and Budget in the Executive is here.The White House website places the blame on Congress: Neither the United States House of Representatives nor…
Nano and Other Emerging Chemical Technologies Blog
CRS Prepares Report on National Nanotechnology Initiative
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) prepared an August 9, 2013, report entitled The National Nanotechnology Initiative: Overview, Reauthorization, and Appropriations Issues. According to the report, from fiscal year (FY) 2001 through FY…
Capital Thinking
Transportation-HUD Appropriations Bills are Poised for Floor Consideration
Legislative Activity Transportation Appropriations Both the House (H.R. 2610) and Senate (S. 1243) Transportation-HUD appropriations bills are poised for floor consideration before the August recess. In the House, there has…
Capital Thinking
Senator Chris Coons Joins Appropriations Committee
Legislative Activity Senate Appropriations Committee Membership. On Thursday, June 20, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) announced that Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) has joined the committee to fill the…
Consumer Finance Monitor
Spending criticized at House hearing on CFPB budget
Continuing to press their case that the CFPB is not sufficiently accountable to Congress, Republican members of the House Financial Services Committee made the CFPB's spending habits the focus of…