House to Vote This Week on CR to Extend Gov't Through Dec. 11
House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., bowed a continuing resolution Monday (HR-8319) to fund the FCC, FTC and other federal agencies through Dec. 11 to avoid government shutdown. Congress must pass a CR or FY 2021 appropriations measures before…
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Oct. 1. A House vote on HR-8319 is expected later this week. “While the House did its job and passed bills funding nearly every government agency, Senate Republicans did not even begin the appropriations process," Lowey said in a statement. "Because of their irresponsibility, a continuing resolution is sadly necessary." The measure appears to have support of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and bipartisan congressional leadership, lobbyists said. A House-passed omnibus FY 2021 bill (HR-7617) would allocate $376 million for the FCC, $341 million for the FTC, $45.5 million for NTIA, $3.7 billion for the Patent and Trademark Office and $1.04 billion for the National Institute of Standards and Technology. It includes $515 million for CPB, almost $180.3 million for DOJ’s Antitrust Division and $2.25 billion for the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (see 2007310053).