The Republicans in the House came up with a new tactic on the FY 2011 spending controversy. They have introduced HR 1363 which is a spending bill for DOD for FY 2011 and contains a section that extends the current Continuing Resolution for another week. If this passes any future possible shut downs of the Federal government would not affect the military as this bill would provide their funding through the end of the fiscal year.
DHS Spending in CR
The DHS portion of the CR looks like it would be essentially the provisions of HR 1 (the dead spending bill put forward earlier this year by the Republicans in the House). I looked at the details available for those parts of the DHS spending that particularly pertain to the chemical security community and the TSA Surface Transportation Security numbers (§ 376) are identical to the HR 1 provisions. Interestingly the part that would fund both CFATS and CERT (National Protection and Programs Directorate - Infrastructure Protection and Information Security - §378) would provide more funds than budgeted in HR 1 ($859,000,000 vs $805,965,000). There is no explanation of why.
The CFATS extension is not specifically mentioned, but again, because of the way the resolution is worded, the CFATS §550 authorization would be extended until April 15th as well.
The House Rules Committee has not yet schedule a hearing to prepare a rule for this bill. It may be scheduled later today for a hearing tomorrow.
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