Sentences with phrase «bipartisan spending bill»

Congress's much anticipated bipartisan spending bill partially restores funding to education programs that was cut in 2013 as part of sequestration, but it doesn't fully return funding to the presequestration levels of FY12.

In March, Congress finally passed a bipartisan spending bill that rejected Trump's divisive and reckless spending priorities.

WASHINGTON — A $ 76 million renovation at the Buffalo VA Medical Center could be in the works soon, thanks to the bipartisan spending bill Congress passed recently, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer said Wednesday.

The first, and most ideal, is to just pass a big bipartisan spending bill — called the «omnibus» — that funds the government.

Washington's bipartisan spending bill significantly increases defense funding, a provision that likely spells wider profits for the country's arms manufacturers.

Not exact matches

HARWOOD: I just want to ask you about that in light of two votes you made recently: one for a partisan tax bill that increased the deficit, the other against a bipartisan spending deal that also increased the deficit.

Key senators say they are closing in on a bipartisan compromise to spend tens of billions of dollars to stiffen the immigration bill's border security requirements.

Trump sent shockwaves through Congress when he made the threat to reject t $ 1.3 billion spending bill after it passed the Senate late last night with bipartisan support.

Texas Rep. Pete Sessions, the top Republican on the House Rules Committee, told Business Insider that the process by which the spending bill was crafted was long and bipartisan, but «once that was done, we did run into problems.»

Directing emergency funds to areas hit by natural disasters had traditionally been quick bipartisan exercises, but that changed after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 — when the Republican Study Committee, a group of House conservatives, pushed spending cuts to compensate for the approximately $ 200 billion expected in Katrina relief — including cutting farm subsidies, Amtrak funding and postponing the Medicare prescription - drug bill Republicans had approved two years earlier.

Lawmakers passed Fix NICS Act, a bipartisan plan first introduced after the Sutherland Springs, Texas, shooting to strengthen the background check reporting system, in its omnibus spending bill.

Federal programs that aid Upstate New York will be preserved as part of a bipartisan deal in Congress for a $ 1 trillion spending bill, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said.

Congress is expected this week to pass yet another short - term spending bill to avoid a government shutdown, prompting a bipartisan pair of senators to introduce a narrow bill on immigration aimed at ending the impasse that has hindered a two - year budget deal.

Separately, the House of Representatives voted at about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday on a bipartisan jobs bill that is designed to spend $ 516 million in borrowed money to help small businesses and create jobs.

The defense bill that will be the basis for the package normally enjoys wide bipartisan support, but Republicans, and some fiscally conservative Democrats, are unhappy with the prospect of another jolt of deficit - swelling spending.

After the Senate's bipartisan 91 - to - 9 vote in a favor of a bill that keeps federal agencies open through March 18 while enacting $ 4 billion in new spending cuts, Mr. Obama urged House and Senate leaders to meet with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and two top aides to work out a longer - term budget agreement.

We hope that Congress will continue on a bipartisan path toward a final omnibus bill for fiscal year 2018 and urge members to raise the budget caps for discretionary spending, which is how the majority of federal research and development is funded,» said Holt in a statement.

The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) applauds Congress for its bipartisan support of the omnibus spending bill that significantly boosts our nation's investment in biomedical research.

The fact that you saw this bill pass with such robust bipartisan support is an indication of how broadly shared the view was that this was a necessary step if we were going to achieve the kind of fiscal balance that allowed us to spend dollars in the places we want to spend.

GOP lawmakers said they hope the bill will attract bipartisan support, but some Democratic lawmakers and groups on the left are calling the motives behind the bill into question, pointing out the significant spending by pro-voucher groups on Republican campaigns.

As part of its spending bill, Congress formed a bipartisan budget conference led by Representative Paul Ryan (R - WI) and Senator Patty Murray (D - WA).

Congressional insiders report that the portion of the bill addressing education funding is the most contentious because it also includes funding for the new health care law; some suggest bipartisan consensus on this part of the bill won't be reached, requiring yet another temporary spending measure while negotiations continue.

The long - stalled farm bill, which represents nearly $ 1 trillion in spending over the next 10 years and passed on a rare bipartisan vote, 68 to 32, produced clear winners and losers.

WASHINGTON A federal spending bill released late on Wednesday included bipartisan legislation that would amend a decades - old privacy law to clarify that a U.S. warrant seeking data stored overseas is valid in certain circumstances.