Monthly Archives: April 2012
- CHN: First Fiscal Year 2013 Appropriations Bills Pass House and Senate Committees: Obama Administration Issues Veto Threat Over Low House Funding Levels
Both the House and Senate have started moving their 12 annual appropriations bills through the Appropriations Subcommittees and full Committee. Final agreement between the House and Senate on most of the bills became more difficult when the House decided on a lower appropriations cap than the $1.047 trillion established for FY 2013 in the bipartisan Read More »
Posted in Budget and Appropriations Comments Off - CHN: House Prepares to Replace Automatic Reductions with Deep Slashing Cuts to Nutrition, Health, and Social Services
Deficit reduction over the next decade is the law of the land. Differences among Republicans and Democrats over how to do it have revealed starkly different priorities. There is bipartisan opposition to the across-the-board cuts in appropriations scheduled to take place starting in January 2013. The proposal being readied by the House leadership to replace Read More »
Posted in Budget and Appropriations Comments Off - CHN: Senate Takes First Step to Reauthorize the Farm Bill; SNAP/Food Stamps Cut
The Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act of 2012 that was approved in the Senate Agriculture Committee on April 26 cuts the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) funding by $4.49 billion over 10 years. The cuts would come from restrictions to the “Heat and Eat” program causing an estimated 500,000 low-income households from 14 states Read More »
Posted in Food and Nutrition, SNAP Comments Off - CHN: Senate Fails to Move Forward on the Buffett Rule
On April 16, the Senate fell short of the 60 votes needed to move forward on the “Paying a Fair Share Act of 2012” (S. 2230), a tax fairness bill introduced by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI). Also known as the Buffett Rule, S. 2230 would require millionaires and billionaires to pay a minimum of 30 Read More »
Posted in Tax Policy Comments Off - CHN: House Passes Budget Resolution
On March 29, 228 members of the U.S. House of Representatives voted to make most federal services disappear. The resolution approved by the House Budget Committee passed the House 228-191, with no Democrats voting for it and 10 Republicans voting no. In the relatively short term – over the next 10 years – the House Read More »
Posted in Budget and Appropriations Comments Off - CHN: Stakes Couldn’t Be Higher for Low-Income Uninsured
After six hours of argument challenging the 2010 health care law, the longest the Supreme Court has heard in 45 years, all sides now anxiously await the Court’s ruling. The outcome will have profound implications for health care policy in the United States, and especially for the millions of low-income uninsured who would receive coverage Read More »
Posted in Health, Health Care Reform, Medicaid Comments Off - CHN: Senate Fails to Advance Bill to End Tax Breaks for Big Oil
On Thursday, March 29, the Senate failed to advance the Repeal Big Oil Tax Subsidies Act (S. 2204), legislation introduced by Senator Robert Menendez (D – NJ) which seeks to repeal several tax breaks for large oil and gas companies and apply the money to fully offset paying for a one-year extension of renewable energy Read More »
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