July 1, 2005
- CHN: House Approves Labor-HHS-Education Spending Bill
By a vote of 250 to 151 , the House approved a bill funding many education and human needs programs on June 24. The Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education appropriations bill sets spending for those agencies for fiscal year 2006. The measure approved on the floor is very similar to Appropriations Read More »
- CHN: Affordable Housing Fund a Step Closer
On May 25, the House Financial Services Committee approved a bill that creates a new regulator for government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The bill, which was approved by a vote of 65-5, includes a provision requiring both GSEs to set aside 5 percent of their after-tax profits in an Affordable Housing Fund Read More »
Posted in Housing and Homelessness Comments Off - CHN: TANF Extended for the 10th Time
The House of Representatives passed another three-month TANF extension on the morning of June 29 and the Senate followed suit on Thursday, June 30. This is the 10th time TANF has been temporarily extended. On the House side, a controversy about paying for some of the costs of the bill slowed down the extension to Read More »
Posted in Income Support, Medicaid, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Comments Off - CHN: GOP Present New Plan; Critics Call it More of the Same
With support for President Bush’s Social Security privatization proposal reaching new lows, Republicans in Congress are turning to new strategies to create private accounts. A poll conducted by Gallup/USA Today/CNN found Americans oppose the President’s proposal by 2-to-1. While the President began his campaign for private accounts by telling audiences that they were the only Read More »
Posted in Social Security Comments Off - CHN: Bill Funding Nutrition Programs Advances in the Senate
On June 23, the Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously approved the Agriculture and Rural Development spending bill for fiscal year 2006, which includes funding for discretionary nutrition programs such as the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). The House approved its Agriculture spending bill ( HR 2744 ) on June 8. Like Read More »
Posted in Child Nutrition, Food and Nutrition, SNAP Comments Off - CHN: Bill Funding Housing Programs Passes House
A bill approved by the House on June 30 provides fiscal year 2006 funding for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Passed by a vote of 405 to 18 , HR 3058 also funds the Departments of Treasury and Transportation, the judiciary and the District of Columbia. Housing advocates are pleased that House Read More »
Posted in Budget and Appropriations, Housing and Homelessness Comments Off - CHN: Senate Appropriators Cut Census Survey of Income, Poverty Data
The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a bill with funding inadequate to continue the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS). This survey has a sample size large enough to provide income, poverty, housing quality, and other important data for states and certain counties on an annual basis. Without this large survey, detailed information such as racial/ethnic Read More »
Posted in Budget and Appropriations, Income Support, Poverty and Income Comments Off
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