House and Senate Pass HR 1473

As expected, both the House and Senate passed HR 1473 today. The votes on the main bill were mixed in both Houses with a large number of Democrats voting for the bill and a significant number of Republicans voting against.

The votes on the two modifying resolutions were much more along party lines with both resolutions passing in the House and failing in the Senate. The vote on the Obama healthcare defunding drew three Democrat ‘Yeas’ in the House and the Planned Parenthood defunding measure drew 5 Republican ‘Nays’ in the Senate.

So, with the government over half-way through the fiscal year we now finally have a funding bill in place. We also have a little more permanence in the CFATS authorization, at least for the remainder of the fiscal year; actually until October 4th, 2011.