News reports (here
for example) last night indicate that Congressional negotiators had reached
agreement on a final spending bill for the remainder of FY 2017. A quick look
at the House Rules Committee
web page show that HR 244, the Hire Vets Act, is going to be used as the
vehicle for the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017.
The 1665-page text of the revised bill can be found here.
More importantly, for detailed explanations of the provisions of the bill the
Rules Committee has provided links to the explanatory statements for each of
the Divisions of the bill. The Division of specific interest to readers of this
bill (with link to the explanatory statement) are:
• Department of Defense
Appropriations ACT, 2017 (Division
C)
• Department of Homeland Security
Appropriations Act, 2017 (Division
F)
• Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017 (Division
K)
These explanatory notes contain a huge number of references
back to House and Senate comments on the bill. These refer back to 114th
Congress Committee Reports on the original appropriations bills that form the
basis for each of the Divisions. I have previously commented on some of those
spending bill reports when there were items of specific interest (see the table
below), where I have not, I am providing links to the report.
The Rules Committee is scheduled to meet on HR 244 on
Tuesday to develop the rule for the consideration of this bill. Since the
negotiations have been so involved, there is no chance that the Rules Committee
will provide for anything but a closed rule on this bill. There will be limited
debate (probably 1 hour) and no amendments authorized. The final House vote on
the bill will probably come Wednesday and the Senate on Thursday. If things go
well (an increasingly big IF) this should get to the President well before the
Midnight Friday deadline.
More on specific provisions in later posts…. It is a lot of
reading.
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