September 23, 2009
- CHN: The Senate Finance Committee Takes Up Health Reform
At last, the Senate Finance Committee (SFC) has put forth its health proposal and began marking up and debating the proposal on September 22. It is the last of the five committees in the House and Senate with jurisdiction over health care reform to consider legislative language. For months now Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) had Read More »
Posted in Health Comments Off - CHN: As Joblessness Rises, Congress Takes Steps to Extend Unemployment Insurance
By the end of September, more than 400,000 unemployed people will exhaust all the state and federal unemployment benefits available to them. By the end of December, if no action is taken, that number will rise to more than 1.3 million. Attempting to respond to this severe problem of long-term unemployment, the House passed a Read More »
Posted in Labor and Employment, Unemployment Insurance Comments Off - CHN: Fiscal Year 2010 Set to Begin: No Funding Bills Have Been Completed
The October 1 beginning of the 2010 fiscal year is fast approaching and Congress has not completed work on any of its 12 appropriations bills which provide annual funding for all discretionary programs. The House is set to vote this week on a one-month stopgap continuing resolution (CR) extending funding for annually appropriated programs at Read More »
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