Week in Review, or Sensing a Spending Stalemate
Congress is taking advantage of this relatively lengthy “work period” (weeks in session between recess) to tackle some big legislation. The Senate began debate on a massive comprehensive immigration reform bill, marked up the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), and passed the “Farm Bill,” while the House passed its version of the NDAA and moved [...]
Week in Review, or Starting Off Easy
The House passed its first two FY 2014 spending bills last week, the Military Construction/Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security bills, each with a significant increase over FY 2013 post-sequestration funding levels. The House Appropriations Committee also released and passed out of subcommittee two additional FY 2014 spending bills for the Department of Defense (DoD) and [...]
Week in Review, or Sliding into Summer
Summer officially arrived in DC last week, signaled by the Memorial Day Congressional recess and the first “uh-oh-I-forgot-about-humidity” days. Luckily it was quiet, allowing some time to adjust, but this won’t last for long as Members of Congress return to DC this week to take on the farm bill, try to keep student loan interest [...]
Week in Review, Selling Out Science
Despite the significant (about $90 billion) difference between the top line FY 2014 spending numbers that the House and the Senate are using for FY 2014, the House Appropriations Committee approved a plan this week on 302(b) allocations, or the funding levels for the 12 individual appropriations bills. Unfortunately, sequester is playing a significant role [...]
Week in Review, or Top Line Tug-of-War
Members of Congress returned from recess to a rainy spring week in DC and immediately resumed bickering over how to move forward on funding the government in the next fiscal year. While both chambers have passed budget resolutions providing top-line spending numbers for FY 2014, the focus has now shifted to whether or not they [...]
Week in Review, or Picking on Peer Review
As the impacts of sequestration continue to emerge, mounting airport delays due to the across-the-board spending cuts spurred Congress into action last week. The Senate and House both passed bills (S.853/H.R. 1765) which would give the Department of Transportation additional flexibility to move funding between accounts and restore some of the furloughs (days off without [...]
Week in Review, or FY 2014 Budget – The Sequel
On Wednesday April 10th, the President delivered his FY 2014 budget request to Congress. You may recall that this delivery normally takes place the first week of February, but has been delayed this year due to uncertainties surrounding the “fiscal cliff” deal and sequestration, the across-the-board spending cuts that kicked in back on March 1st. [...]
Week in Review, or Tackling the Budget
Welcome back after what we hope has been a lovely break. The cold is finally departing and we’re looking forward to a bit of spring here inside the beltway. As reported in our last edition, both Houses of Congress agreed on a (hybrid) spending bill for FY 2013. The President signed the spending bill (H.R. [...]
Week in Review, or Battling Budgets
It was a productive week on Capitol Hill, with lawmakers working to wrap up the FY 2013 appropriations process while at the same time kicking off the FY 2014 process by introducing contrasting budget resolutions in each chamber. As reported last week, the House has already passed its version of the FY 2013 continuing resolution (CR) [...]
Week in Review, or Hope Floats for FY 2014
On Saturday, the President made his weekly address calling for an end to sequestration and throughout the week more information continued to bubble to the surface about the impact of sequester at, for instance, the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Energy. The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Washington Highlights offers an overview [...]
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