Today the House and Senate both took up HR 9747, the Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025, both passing the bill with bipartisan support. With all of the drama that we have seen this year around spending measures, the relatively painless passage today on both sides of the Capitol seemed almost painless. That apparent painlessness is misleading, all the players did today was kick-the-can down the road until after the election.
The House took up the bill early this afternoon. After just a little over 30 minutes of debate (40 minutes were authorized), a recorded vote was demanded. An hour and a half later, a roll call vote was held and the bill passed by a vote of 341 to 82. All of the nay votes were from Republicans. That vote was completed at 4:33 EDT.
The legislation then moved to the Senate where it was considered under unanimous consent agreement that was reached on Tuesday to allow the bill to be debated for 2 hours and immediately move for a vote on the bill with a 60-vote threshold for passage. At 5:18 EDT the vote was held and the measure passed by a bipartisan vote of 78 to 18. As was the case in the House, all the Nay votes were from Republicans.
President Biden is expected to sign the bill, probably before the weekend. The fiscal year deadline is Monday night at midnight.
The spending bill drama will resume when Congress returns
from its October recess on November 11th, 2024.
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