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Senate Nears Passage of Bill to Avert Federal Shutdown

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HERE IT GOES AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! KICK THE CAN!!!!!!!!

Senate Nears Passage of Bill to Avert Federal Shutdown
By Brian Faler - Mar 19, 2013 11:01 PM CT

Congress is pressing to avoid a government shutdown with a Senate vote this week on a stopgap funding bill for the rest of the fiscal year, as lawmakers from both parties set battle lines over the 2014 budget.

Congressional leaders say they want to prevent even a partial halt of government operations by getting the stopgap measure to President Barack Obama, a Democrat, before March 27. That’s when the law keeping agencies’ lights on will expire.

A person walks down the steps at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. Lawmakers in the House and Senate are unlikely to reach agreement on a 2014 spending blueprint, letting the nation enter a fourth consecutive fiscal year in October without a budget. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

In the House of Representatives, Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican, said yesterday that he expects his colleagues to accept the Democrats’ measure as-is.

“As long as they hit the numbers, we’re good to go,” Ryan told Peter Cook on Bloomberg Television’s “In the Loop.” “I have every reason to believe that that’s the case.”

Passage would be a rare bit of cooperation on budgetary matters even as lawmakers remain locked in a fight over tax increases and spending cuts. Approving the measure, known as a continuing resolution, also would clear the way for debate in the House and Democrat-led Senate over their 2014 budget plans.

House Republicans today are to start debating Ryan’s latest budget offering, which proposes to balance the government’s books within a decade solely through spending cuts. Senate Democrats can’t take up a competing plan -- which outlines a combination of tax increases and spending cuts -- until work on the continuing resolution is done.

Dead End

Lawmakers in the House and Senate are unlikely to reach agreement on a 2014 spending blueprint, letting the nation enter a fourth consecutive fiscal year in October without a budget.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, is trying to complete work on a 2014 budget this week largely because of a procedural quirk that can lead to demands for hundreds of votes. Normally, the chamber’s rules make it hard for proposals to reach the floor. The annual budget debate opens a window for lawmakers, who can seek consideration of an unlimited number of measures.

To encourage self-restraint, Reid wants to back that debate up against the approach of a holiday break that begins March 22.

“We’re going to have a budget -- we’re going to do that before we leave here for Easter if it takes however long it takes,” he warned senators yesterday.

Market Reaction

Financial markets have largely shrugged off concern that trillion-dollar budget deficits have pushed U.S. debt to record levels. Yields on 10-year Treasury notes have risen to about 1.9 percent yesterday from about 1.8 percent on Dec. 31, while the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index of equities has gained 9.8 percent.

The stopgap bill to keep the government running through Sept. 30 would provide some programs with modest funding increases. That may make it easier to accommodate the $85 billion in automatic spending cuts set in motion earlier this month under sequestration, including 8 percent from the Defense Department. The bill provides an additional $10 billion for the Pentagon’s “operations and maintenance accounts,” which pays to train troops, maintain weapons and other daily operations.

The stopgap measure also would add $250 million to the Women, Infants and Children program, which provides nutrition aid to low-income mothers. That may take some of the sting out of a roughly $350 million automatic cut under sequestration.

$1 Trillion Measure

In all, the continuing resolution would provide $1.043 trillion in nonemergency funding, though sequestration will reduce that to about $984 billion. The bill also includes about $100 billion in “emergency” war-related funding.

The measure also would extend a pay freeze for federal workers and fund efforts to restore the Capitol’s cast-iron dome, one of the oldest such structures in the world. It also would provide a $193,400 “bereavement payment” to the wife of the late Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye, a Democrat who died in December. It’s a tradition in Congress to provide one year’s salary to the survivor of a lawmaker who dies in office.

Democrats had sought to include a provision making it easier for agencies to rework their budgets to accommodate sequestration, which Republicans opposed as it would usurp the power of Congress to control spending.

This week’s debate has left both parties frustrated.

Kansas Senator Jerry Moran, a Republican, helped slow progress on the stopgap measure by insisting on a vote on his amendment to let the Federal Aviation Administration move around funds to avoid cutting air traffic controllers.
Request Rejected

Reid refused Moran’s request.

Democrats, in turn, suggested that Republicans were deliberately slowing the stopgap bill so that they could spend the two-week holiday break complaining about the lack of an agreement to frame the 2014 budget.

“For the longest time, we were preached to by the other side about no budget resolution,” Senate Democratic Whip Richard Durbin of Illinois, said during floor debate. Now Republicans “are the ones who won’t let us bring this to a vote,” he said.

The bill is H.R. 933.

67 Warrior

67 Warrior

HI ya CK....Heck, we have a voting public that is mostly uneducated on our Government, they are sucking dollars out faster than those of us that work can put in and smile all the way to the shop to get their nails done and then we wonder why we kick the can down the road a bit.......We have idiots voting for idiots that can give them more....That is why.....!!!!!!!

You can RV any darn time you like... I talked to Socata the other day, he seems well and working hard..Just like the rest of us. Have a Blessed Easter Holiday Outcast everywhere. Peace..67

gente

gente

Emdless bailouts....told ya last year we'd be here for another year, and here we are. Never underestimate the greed and stupidity of our fearless leaders....they will run this till the end of time if they can..gotta steal everything from the people...all part of their globalist design...

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