Reid Targets Appropriations Bills, Ex-Im Reauthorization for Senate September Agenda
The Senate will target passage of appropriations measures and reauthorization legislation for the Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank after the chamber reconvenes on Sept. 8, said Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., on the Senate floor on July 31 before adjourning the chamber…
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the following day. The Senate has yet to pass an appropriations bill for fiscal year 2015, while the House has passed a number of trade-related appropriations measures, including Homeland Security and Commerce. Fiscal year 2014 wraps up on Sept. 30. Congress remains at loggerheads over Ex-Im Bank reauthorization (see 14072539). “We have not had a productive Congress,” said Reid. “We can’t push everything back to the so-called ‘lame duck.’ Much of what we’re able to accomplish in September depends on Republicans in the House.” Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., introduced a reauthorization bill on July 30 (see 14073027). The legislation stripped a controversial coal provision, included in a draft bill Manchin released in the preceding weeks, that aimed to garner Republican support, but met a backlash from some lawmakers and environmental groups (see 14071414). The House has produced two other measures in recent weeks (see 14072313). Reid said he plans to adjourn the Senate on Sept. 23 until the mid-term elections in November.