| House passes first approps bill after long day of votes |
| Friday, June 19, 2009 |
By Walter Alarkon
House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.) has laid out a detailed schedule that seeks to get the House to approve the 12 spending bills before the August recess. Senate Democrats have also said they wish to pass the bills on time — before the start of the next fiscal year, Oct. 1 — but the Senate has yet to get its first bill onto the floor. Congress hasn't passed all of the spending measures before the start of the fiscal year since 1994.
Obey had slated the Commerce, Justice and Science measure for House passage Wednesday, but it stalled over a debate over how many amendments Republicans could offer on the floor.
Obey and Democrats limited the amendments to 33, down from the total of 127 initially offered. Republicans had offered more than 100 amendments, most of them aimed at reducing spending. While Republicans protested the lack of open debate, Obey criticized the GOP strategy of trying to throw up procedural obstacles to the Democrats' agenda.
The GOP frustration spilled over into Thursday, as Republicans forced Democrats to take vote after vote on the amendments. Voting started at 10:30 in the morning and continued until 6:30 in the evening.
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