Congress is well into the process of passing the twelve spending bills that dictate federal government spending for the 2010 fiscal year, which begins October 1, 2009. We’ve produced a table to track the House and Senate bills, their costs, and votes on them, as well as votes on final passage of the compromise [...]
Over the weekend we reported on the annual spending process getting into full swing. Well, it’s keepin’ on swingin’!
As I write the House is debating H.R. 2892, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2010. That bill spends about $450 per U.S. family on running the DHS.
The House has already passed H.R. 2847, the [...]
The nitty-gritty of the fiscal year 2010 spending process is getting under way. By the beginning of the new fiscal year October 1st, Congress is supposed to pass twelve appropriations bills, spending the money in the U.S. treasury on all the operations of the government for the year.
Last week, the House passed the H.R. [...]
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 [...]
With less than ten days to go before the beginning of the new fiscal year, Congress hasn’t passed a single annual spending bill. Only last week, the second of twelve bills was introduced in the House. Not passed – introduced. The Senate, at least, has seen nine bills introduced, though it hasn’t [...]
When is nothing happening newsworthy? How about when Congress spends thousands of dollars per U.S. family without oversight.
With just over two weeks to go before the beginning of the new fiscal year October 1st, neither the House or the Senate have introduced all the annual spending bills, and none have passed into law.
These are [...]
We’ve updated the FY 2009 Budget and Spending Process page with information on the first few annual spending bills that are now making their way through Congress.
The new additions, and their cost per family (at current interest rates and population figures), are:
S. 3182, Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies – $559.17
S. 3181, Homeland Security – [...]