May 7, 2004
- CHN: Why No Budget Resolution This Year is Not Such a Bad Idea
Six weeks after the House passed its budget resolution for fiscal year 2005 (and eight weeks after the Senate passed its version), House and Senate negotiators have been unable to resolve differences between the two plans (H Con Res 393 and S Con Res 95). As reported in the April 23 Human Needs Report, a Read More »
Posted in Budget and Appropriations Comments Off - CHN: Unemployment Benefits Extension Amendment Reappears on Senate Floor
Unemployment benefits extension returned to center stage in the Senate again this week. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) is continuing to advocate for an extension of the federal Temporary Emergency Unemployment Compensation (TEUC) Program. Cantwell, along with other Democrats, is attempting to secure a vote on an amendment to a corporate tax break bill (S 1637). Read More »
Posted in Labor and Employment, Unemployment Insurance Comments Off - CHN: Senate Votes to Overturn Labor Department’s Revised Overtime Pay Proposal
Democrats and organized labor scored a victory against the Bush Administration on Tuesday, voting to bar the Department of Labor from implementing its new overtime pay provisions. By a vote of 52 to 47, the Senate adopted an amendment to a bill to cut corporate taxes (S 1637) that would block the Labor Department’s final Read More »
Posted in Labor and Employment Comments Off - CHN: Senate Passes Bill to Help Families With Disabled Children Receive Medicaid
On Thursday, May 6 the Senate passed by unanimous consent a bill that will help middle-income families whose children have disabilities to buy Medicaid coverage to help pay for the health care for their children. The Family Opportunity Act (S 622), sponsored by Senators Charles Grassley (R-IA), Ted Kennedy (D-MA), and Max Baucus (D-MT), allows Read More »
Posted in Health, Housing and Homelessness, Medicaid Comments Off - CHN: Tax Cutting Agenda Moves Forward
Despite the lack of a budget agreement for fiscal year 2005, the House passed two tax cuts in the last two weeks and House leadership promises to bring to the floor two more tax cuts before the Memorial Day recess. Yesterday, the House agreed by a vote of 333 to 89 to extend until 2005 Read More »
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