While the changes to the policy measure reflect the funding levels for the Pentagon in the recent bipartisan budget agreement, eliminating one key reason President Barack Obama vetoed the original measure, a disagreement remains over potentially closing the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. (rollcall.com)
I appreciate the coverage The Courant has given in recent days to the tentative bipartisan budget agreement that Republican and Democratic legislative leaders jointly announced this week, and wanted to publicly thank my colleagues for their perseverance, resilience and most of all their courage to compromise. (courant.com)
The Senate has passed a massive, bipartisan budget agreement and spending bill to reopen the shuttered federal government. (fortune.com)