Senate Appropriator Floats Controversial Continuing Resolution
Senate Appropriations Chairman Thad Cochran, R-Miss., floated a heavily-anticipated continuing resolution on Sept. 22 to extend funding for the federal government through Dec. 11, but his Democratic counterpart on the committee, ranking member Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., immediately lashed into the…
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bill as a "political stunt." The Senate is set for a procedural vote to advance the stopgap measure on Sept. 24, said the office of Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas. The current authorization for funding will expire at the end of fiscal year 2015 on Sept. 30 at midnight. The bill, H.J.Res.61 (here), bans funding for Planned Parenthood and affiliates for one year unless the groups pledge to not perform or fund abortions. A series of recent videos on the public health organization has produced an outcry among lawmakers (here). The bill would keep CBP and all other trade agencies at fiscal year 2015 funding levels. The 2013 federal government shutdown didn't drastically impact cargo movement for most products, but trade-related agencies severely cut back on operations (see 13101002).