Sentences with phrase «stopgap spending bill»

A political impasse that shut down most federal operations for four days ended last week with a new stopgap spending bill and a promise to protect education spending as the White House and congressional leaders negotiate a seven - year balanced - budget plan.

September 30, 2013 • As the U.S. government braces for a shutdown, the Senate voted Monday to reject amendments to a stopgap spending bill passed by the House of Representatives that would have delayed the healthcare law for a year and repeal a tax on medical devices, and returned a «clean» continuing resolution that would keep the government open until Nov. 15 — and leave Obamacare intact — to the House.

The House had passed a stopgap spending bill late Thursday that would have kept the government running for four weeks if it had been echoed by the Senate, after talks on reaching a budget deal stalled.

The House approved a stopgap spending bill last night to keep the government open past today, but Senate Democrats — angered by President Trump's vulgar aspersions and a lack of progress on a broader budget and immigration deal — appeared ready to block the measure.

U.S > Senate Democrats warned Republicans that attempts to take funding away from Planned Parenthood or pay for Trump's border wall in a stopgap spending bill that must pass by late April would result in a government shutdown.

For his part, Ryan has to navigate some tricky waters on the underlying stopgap spending bill, known in Washington - speak as a continuing resolution.

In September 2013, his conservative star power soared when he spoke for 21 hours straight to try to block a stopgap spending bill in the lead up to a crippling shutdown the following month.

Not exact matches

Earlier on Tuesday, there appeared to be two possible outcomes: The Senate would either sign off on the $ 659.2 billion increase in defense spending and add in a parallel increase in domestic spending, or lawmakers would strip the measure of all extra defense spending and send yet another «simple» stopgap bill back to the House.

The House will send a three - month stopgap government spending bill, debt - limit hike and aid for victims of Hurricane Harvey to President Trump's desk on Friday.

The stopgap bill is expected to extend spending levels beyond the Nov. 8 elections, most likely until sometime in December when it is anticipated that Congress will then wrap up its work on final bills.

NAR President Elizabeth Mendenhall says Congress must now do their part to enact the bill before the current stopgap spending measure expires on March 23.