Sentences with phrase «still on the appropriation bill»

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Republicans adjourned the House at 3:15 a.m. until after July 4th after Speaker Paul Ryan took the remarkable step of calling a vote on a major appropriations bill in the wee hours and without any debate., but Democrats were still at it well after 4 a.m.

While the bill is still awaiting approval in three separate committees — Budget and Appropriations, Legislation, and Public Safety and Social Services — the Democratic Caucus is pushing for the committees to approve the proposal in order to move forward on a late night vote of the full 17 - member county Board of Legislators on Monday, July 17.

Raising the spending caps does not automatically mean science agencies will now get a spending increase: Congress still needs to agree on a catch - all omnibus appropriations bill that reflects this new higher spending level, and lays out funding for individual agencies and programs.

Its bill, approved by the full appropriations panel on 11 June, gives NASA's earth science program most of the large increase requested by the president and tops the House number for NASA science by $ 15 million, although that is still short of the president's request.

Still, the real details of who gets what in the 2018 budget — including what science will get federal funding support — will come as Congress works on an omnibus appropriations bill, expected in late March.

Still, expectations are high that House and Senate appropriators will indeed be able to reach a bipartisan compromise on the 12 regular appropriations bills by that date.

Traditionally (but not necessarily) the House acts first on appropriations bills and, indeed, the Senate Appropriations Committee is still in the appropriations bills and, indeed, the Senate Appropriations Committee is still in the Appropriations Committee is still in the hearing phase.