November 21, 2003
- CHN: Nation’s Unemployed Still Waiting For Vote To Extend Federal Benefits
With Congress Planning on Adjourning Before Thanksgiving, Time is Running Out After another week of inaction on the extension of unemployment benefits, Congress is coming dangerously close to adjournment and once again leaving Washington for the holidays without helping the nation’s unemployed workers who have exhausted their benefits. Neither the Senate nor the House of Read More »
Posted in Labor and Employment, Unemployment Insurance Comments Off - CHN: Omnibus Appropriations Bill Moving Forward
House and Senate appropriators are working quickly to wrap up a $285 billion omnibus spending bill for fiscal year 2004 before Thanksgiving. The bill will fold five separate spending bills into one large package – including the Labor-HHS-Education, VA-HUD, and Commerce-Justice-State bills. The Senate is expected to take up the omnibus on Monday. It is Read More »
Posted in Budget and Appropriations, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Education and Youth Policy, Housing and Homelessness, Labor and Employment Comments Off - CHN: Medicare Prescription Drug Bill Heading for a Vote
Medicare Prescription Drug Bill Heading for a Vote (11/21/03) Republican leaders in Congress reached an agreement last weekend on a Medicare prescription drug bill and are preparing to move the bill to the House floor as early as Friday, November 21 (HR 1). The Senate will probably begin debating the bill over the weekend. It Read More »
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