Congress didn’t finish the annual spending process by the beginning of the new fiscal year October 1st. It has passed some of the bills that run the government, but most of the government has been running on temporary spending measures, called “continuing resolutions.”
Here’s a run-down of the action so far:
On October 1st, the Legislative Branch [...]
Congress is well behind now on passing the bills that govern spending for the 2010 fiscal year. It starts on October 1st, in just 12 short days.
As you can see from the chart to the right, Congress was supposed to have been well through the process in early summer. It’s not working out that [...]
Funding for the regular operations of most of the government was running out late last week, and a bill to finish out the fiscal year was heading to final passage. But there were upwards of 9,000 earmarks in that bill, and that didn’t sit right with a lot of people. (Last fall, Congress funded the [...]
When Congress didn’t complete the annual spending process back in September, it passed a temporary spending bill to run most of the government through to today. Well, it’s today now! And Congress hasn’t figured out what the government’s spending should be for the rest of the year.
It had been working on an omnibus spending bill [...]
The drama of the financial services bailout, coming right at the end of the congressional session and the beginning of the new fiscal year, was very distracting. So distracting that it was easy to miss the partial/temporary spending bill that Congress hurriedly passed.
The bill (now law) is Public Law 110-329, the Consolidated Security, Disaster [...]
CQ Politics reports on a big spending bill heading for the House floor today:
The measure (HR 2638), which would fund the government through March 6, also includes $22.9 billion in emergency spending for disaster relief. . . .
As expected, the legislation includes the text of three security-related spending bills that will cover all of [...]