Tuesday night, House Republican leaders unveiled a temporary budget bill that would keep education and other government programs funded at levels similar to FY 2014, according to The Washington Post.
The continuing resolution would authorize federal funding from the start of the new fiscal year, Oct. 1, until mid-December, when negotiators would prefer to approve detailed spending plans for the federal agencies through 2015. The legislation includes a short-term extension of a trade-promotion agency that has been targeted by conservative activists, eliminating a key sticking point in the effort to avoid a government shutdown.
House Appropriations Chairman Harold Rogers (R-KY) said in a statement that the committee wrote the bill "in a responsible, restrained way that should draw wide support in the House and Senate." That means no controversial riders or major changes, Rogers added.
Originally expected to debate the stopgap measure this morning, the House has postponed action on the continuing resolution until next week as new pressure points on the spending proposal surfaced. Among the issues are: whether to authorize administration action against the Islamic State terrorist group, a planned extension of the Export-Import Bank and a dispute over the length of the continuing resolution, CQ reported. The move threatens to push final passage right up to the Oct. 1 deadline.
Updated September 11, 2014 at 10:45 a.m.
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The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-republicans-unveil-bill-to-fund-government-till-december/2014/09/09/bbed3f86-3854-11e4-bdfb-de4104544a37_story.html?wpisrc=nl-headlines&wpmm=1
CQ
http://www.cq.com/doc/4545150?2