March 12, 2004
- CHN: House Budget Committee Begins to Work on Budget Resolution
The House Budget Committee began marking up a budget resolution on Thursday, March 12, but was unable to complete work when fiscal conservatives on the committee demanded that legislation to establish new budget rules move alongside any budget resolution. The Committee will continue its work on March 17. House leadership had hoped to put a Read More »
Posted in Budget and Appropriations Comments Off - CHN: Senate Approves Fiscal Year 2005 Budget Resolution
Senate Approves Fiscal Year 2005 Budget Resolution: Caps Spending for Many Human Needs Programs but Rejects Proposed Cuts on Medicaid, EITC In the early morning hours of Friday, March 12, the Senate approved a $2.4 trillion budget plan for next fiscal year by a vote of 51 to 45. The resolution provides virtually no new Read More »
Posted in Budget and Appropriations Comments Off - CHN: ACORN: DC Wins $1 Million for Low-income Heating and Energy Assistance
With Federal LIHEAP dollars for District families exhausted, in recent weeks DC ACORN members have been organizing a series of actions to demand that Mayor Anthony Williams allocate funds from the District’s “rainy day fund” to help low-income families keep their heat and electricity on. In response, ACORN members won a March 5 meeting with Read More »
Posted in Housing and Homelessness, Income Support, Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Comments Off - CHN: Child Nutrition Reauthorization Moves through House Committee
On March 10 the House Education and Workforce Committee uanimously approved H.R. 3873, the “Child Nutrition Improvement and Integrity Act.” The bill, sponsored by the Subcommittee on Education Reform Chairman Michael N. Castle (R-DE), reauthorizes and improves provisions of School Lunch, School Breakfast and Summer Food child nutrition programs through 2008. The bill improves access Read More »
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