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 [...]
The FY 2010 Spending Tracker has been updated with votes in the House last week on energy and water development spending, financial services and general government spending, and military/veterans spending.
The two biggest bills of the season have yet to make an appearance. The Labor/HHS and Defense spending bills often cost about $5,000 per U.S. [...]
. . . with a Senate agriculture spending bill ($1,110), and a Senate military/veterans spending bill ($1,300).
The House Interior spending bill has been voted on in the relevant Senate committee. The new version of that bill costs $335 per U.S. family.
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 [...]
Last week, President Obama put in a request with Congress for $83.4 billion in extra military spending this fiscal year. That’s about $850 per U.S. family or $270 per person.
The Bush Administration was big on making supplemental spending requests for the military even though many military expenditures were entirely predictable and could have been planned [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Once again, we’ve updated the FY 2009 Budget and Spending Process page with information on a few more of the 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:
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies [...]