Immediately prior to adjourning until after the election,
Congress approved a six-month spending bill that will keep the government running
when the current fiscal year ends on Sunday. Join Advocacy Associates on
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The continuing resolution sets spending levels until March
27, 2013 at the $1.047 trillion level agreed upon in the Budget Control Act,
the deal reached last summer to raise the debt ceiling. The spending cap for
FY13 is slightly higher than FY12 levels, which will boost programs by .621%
across the board and will allow $1.992 billion in additional funding to go to
various projects and disaster relief.
The agreement marks a compromise between the House and the
Senate, which based its individual spending bills on wildly differing topline
levels. Conservative members of the House had been pushing the budget
resolution introduced by Vice Presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI),
which would have lowered overall spending for FY13 by $19 billion. The Senate,
on the other hand, supported the topline numbers agreed upon in the BCA. In what seemed like a contradictory vote, the
bill passed handily in the House, but passed by a narrower margin in the
Senate. The President is expected to sign it into law this week.
After the election, fiscal issues such as sequestration, tax
reform, and deficit control will dominate the lame duck session of Congress. Join
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and policy issues for the election season and beyond, regardless of the outcome
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