Thursday’s vote followed a somewhat frantic couple of days during which the House and then the Senate tried to move the CR off its legislative vehicle due to concerns that it was the only fiscal 2020 spending package that had passed both chambers, making it available for an appropriations conference report. Rand Paul that would have reduced spending by 1 percent.
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Stopgap measures lasted for a full year during fiscal years 2007, 20.Īppropriators are hoping to avoid a series of temporary spending bills, but haven’t ruled out additional bills lasting into early spring or even next September.īefore voting on the continuing resolution, the Senate voted 73-20 to table an amendment from Kentucky GOP Sen. Lawmakers have used at least two every year since 1996 - the last time Congress passed all of its appropriations bills on time, according to the Congressional Research Service. Temporary spending bills are routinely needed to buy additional time to wrap up the year’s spending bills. The second, where Trump would “stomp his feet” and “make impossible demands” would likely end in another government shutdown, the New York Democrat said. The first path, which ends in a bipartisan agreement, doesn’t include Trump’s involvement. Schumer said Thursday during floor remarks that the year-end negotiations could go down one of two paths. “Now, border wall is not directly connected, but indirectly, to the allocations.” “Border wall is going to have to be resolved before we get some type of legislation,” he said. Shelby did seem to accept the idea that subcommittee allocations for the dozen fiscal 2020 bills can be finalized before reaching agreement on how much money to give Trump for the border wall, the issue that sparked the longest government shutdown in history late last year.
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