Lots going on as congress works to get as much $$$ business done before the August recess.
Here are tidbits I picked up this week in DC and through CQ and APLU.......
The Senate Appropriations Committee overwhelmingly approved a $48.7 billion draft bill Thursday to fund the State Department and foreign affairs activities in fiscal 2010.
USAID would get $1.4 billion — $329.6 million more than fiscal 2009.
***************
Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer, D‑Calif., said Thursday she no longer intends to mark up a bill before the Senate leaves for its summer recess Aug. 7. Instead, she said, she will set the markup for early September.
The delay of a Senate committee markup of climate change legislation until September is a signal that health care — not energy — will take priority in the near future.
Boxer and the chairmen of other committees that share jurisdiction over the complex legislation met Wednesday evening with Majority Leader Harry Reid, D‑Nev., and Carol M. Browner, White House coordinator of energy and climate policy. Reid agreed to extend by 10 days a Sept. 18 deadline for all committees to finish their work on the bill, giving them until Sept. 28 to complete markups.
***************
Appropriations Committee approved the FY2010 Energy-Water Appropriations bill that would provide $34.3 billion in discretionary funding. The Committee provided $27.4 billion for the Department of Energy overall, $1.109 billion below the President’s budget request. The Office of Science would receive $4.899 billion. There is no funding provided for the Re-ENERGYSE program and the Committee provides funding for three of the Innovation Hubs: Modeling and Simulation, Fuels from Sunlight, and Energy Efficient Building Systems.
***************
With respect to the subcommittee-approved Labor-HHS measure in the House, the legislation would maintain the maximum Pell Grant award provided in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) at $5,550. It would also fund programs for Historically Black Colleges and Universities at $653 million. GEAR UP would be funded at $330 million while TRIO would receive $868 million under this bill.
***************
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) would receive $30.97 billion excluding the transfer of funds for the Global AIDS program in the bill, and, according to the chairman’s prepared statement, the bill “reject[s] the Administration’s targeted funding approach and [ensures] that all institutes and centers receive funding to offset biomedical research inflation…”
Here are tidbits I picked up this week in DC and through CQ and APLU.......
The Senate Appropriations Committee overwhelmingly approved a $48.7 billion draft bill Thursday to fund the State Department and foreign affairs activities in fiscal 2010.
USAID would get $1.4 billion — $329.6 million more than fiscal 2009.
***************
Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer, D‑Calif., said Thursday she no longer intends to mark up a bill before the Senate leaves for its summer recess Aug. 7. Instead, she said, she will set the markup for early September.
The delay of a Senate committee markup of climate change legislation until September is a signal that health care — not energy — will take priority in the near future.
Boxer and the chairmen of other committees that share jurisdiction over the complex legislation met Wednesday evening with Majority Leader Harry Reid, D‑Nev., and Carol M. Browner, White House coordinator of energy and climate policy. Reid agreed to extend by 10 days a Sept. 18 deadline for all committees to finish their work on the bill, giving them until Sept. 28 to complete markups.
***************
Appropriations Committee approved the FY2010 Energy-Water Appropriations bill that would provide $34.3 billion in discretionary funding. The Committee provided $27.4 billion for the Department of Energy overall, $1.109 billion below the President’s budget request. The Office of Science would receive $4.899 billion. There is no funding provided for the Re-ENERGYSE program and the Committee provides funding for three of the Innovation Hubs: Modeling and Simulation, Fuels from Sunlight, and Energy Efficient Building Systems.
***************
With respect to the subcommittee-approved Labor-HHS measure in the House, the legislation would maintain the maximum Pell Grant award provided in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) at $5,550. It would also fund programs for Historically Black Colleges and Universities at $653 million. GEAR UP would be funded at $330 million while TRIO would receive $868 million under this bill.
***************
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) would receive $30.97 billion excluding the transfer of funds for the Global AIDS program in the bill, and, according to the chairman’s prepared statement, the bill “reject[s] the Administration’s targeted funding approach and [ensures] that all institutes and centers receive funding to offset biomedical research inflation…”
No comments:
Post a Comment