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Congress has made quick work, so far, of the 12 annual bills setting agency spending for fiscal 2013. Over the past few months, the House Appropriations Committee has approved 10 of the bills, and the full House has OK'd five of them. The full Senate has approved no appropriations bill so far this year, however the committee has reported out eight bills.
Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) expressed frustration with the \"dysfunctional\" state of Congress today, blaming lawmakers who he said shouldn\'t be legislating in the first place.
Despite the successful passage last week of a small group of annual spending bills covering several federal agencies\' 2012 budgets, Congress will likely fold the remaining bills into a single omnibus.
A government shutdown was averted Thursday when Congress approved a compromise spending bill. The bill funds the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Transportation, HUD, Justice, and some smaller agencies through the end of the fiscal year. The rest of the government will operate on another short-term continuing resolution, which will expire Dec. 16.
The House and the Senate voted to approve appropriations bills for Agriculture; Commmerce, Justice and Science agencies; and the Departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development. Taken together this is the \"minibus.\"
The conference committee is the first step in reconciling the House version of the appropriations bill with the Senate\'s.
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Time for lawmakers to pass a continuing resolution is running short as the fiscal year ends Friday. The Senate rejected the House version of CR Friday, and will take up debate on its version Monday afternoon. In the meantime, cuts to GAO and the E-Government Fund are drawing ire from supporters.
A six-week continuing resolution did not pass the House in a vote today. The government runs out of funds on Sept. 30 if Congress does not pass a bill. What\'s more, lawmakers face a shortened deadline to sort out 2012 funding — Congress will be in recess all next week.
The \"FY 2011 Year Long Funding Act\" contains language that will linger on long after the year is over. The Hill\'s Ian Swanson explains.
Democratic insiders question if anything more than a stopgap spending measure and temporary extension of Bush-era tax cuts can pass. The Hill\'s Molly Hooper brings us the latest.
When your agency funding comes through may be the best indicator of how much you\'re getting. The Hill\'s Bob Cusack explains.
Democratic leaders in the Senate consider adding the budget blueprint to a $59 billion dollar emergency spending package winding through Congress. But things are never as easy as that on the Hill. Congressional expert Jodi Schneider explains.