Focus on FY 2017 Funding Likely Hurts Chances for Near-Term TPP Consideration, McConnell Says
The “preference” of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., same as House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., “would be to pass several minibuses if we could,” he told reporters Sept. 29. “We’ll just have to see what we can move.” Both…
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chambers of Congress passed a short-term continuing resolution Sept. 28, funding the federal government through Dec. 9. President Barack Obama signed the CR on Sept. 29. McConnell’s “top priority” in the lame-duck session will be FY 2017 government funding and the 21st Century Cures legislation, he said, dismissing prospects for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (see 1609220036). “Our appropriators are going to be working all month, all October,” Ryan told reporters in a separate news conference, agreeing with the minibus strategy but saying he doesn't know which appropriations measures may be clumped together. “The groundwork has been laid to do a good funding bill for the rest of the year,” said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., at a different conference. “There’s no reason we shouldn’t be able to do it.”