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MoveOn Statement on GOP Continuing to Ban IVF Treatment

February 29, 2024 Statement, treatment, continuing, MoveOn0 comment

Washington, D.C. – Following the news that Senate Republicans blocked U.S. Senator Duckworth’s bill to protect IVF treatment, MoveOn Political Action Executive Director Rahna Epting issued the following statement: “Once again MAGA extremists are showing us their true colors. They will stop at nothing to take away our rights, our freedoms and try to control our bodies. Even by their standards, today’s action was shocking and disgusting. After a week of empty rhetoric trying to distance themselves from the Alabama ruling, they are showing us who they really are through…

Defense officials say a year-long continuing resolution would be ‘The Bad Place’

December 8, 2022 Defense, Resolution, officials, Place, continuing, yearlong, would, 'The0 comment

With no solid prospects for passage of the 2023 federal budget, the Department of Defense wants lawmakers to know just how bad life will be if they have to function for a full year on a continuing resolution (CR) instead of a real budget. “DoD has never lived with a year-long CR. So there’s probably some levels of badness we haven’t fully explored because we haven’t had to live it yet,” said Mike McCord, DoD undersecretary of defense and comptroller at the Professional Services Council Federal Market Forecast Conference on…

Biden signs continuing resolution into law averting government shutdown, FDA furloughs

October 1, 2022 into, government, Signs, Resolution, shutdown, Furloughs, averting, continuing, Biden0 comment

President Joe Biden signed a short-term continuing resolution bill into law on Friday, averting a partial government shutdown. The House passed the bill earlier in the afternoon. The Senate passed the CR on Thursday after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) agreed to drop a provision in an earlier version of the CR that would streamline the permitting process for energy projects. The bill funds the federal government through Dec. 16 and gives Congress more time to work out a comprehensive spending package for the rest of fiscal 2023. The continuing resolution…

Continuing the conversation about continuing resolutions, and other happenings on the Hill

September 19, 2022 about, Hill, Resolutions, conversation, continuing, happenings0 comment

Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Subscribe to Federal Drive’s daily audio interviews on <a href=”https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/federal-drive-with-tom-temin/id1270799277?mt=2″>Apple Podcasts</a> or <a href=”https://www.podcastone.com/federal-drive-with-tom-temin?pid=1753589″>PodcastOne</a>. The continuing resolution that Congress is debating is sort of like COVID. You know it’s coming, but how bad will it be? CRs can go for days or they can go for months. Last year’s went nearly halfway through the fiscal year. To find out how this one is shaping up, the <a href=”https://federalnewsnetwork.com/category/temin/tom-temin-federal-drive/”>Federal Drive with Tom Temin </a>talked with Loren Duggan, Bloomberg Government deputy news director. Tom Temin: Loren,…

OMB warns of hiring freeze, funding gaps, if Congress pursues full-year continuing resolution

November 15, 2021 fullyear, Congress, warns, Resolution, funding, hiring, freeze, continuing, pursues, gaps0 comment

Several agencies would lose out on funding needed to address new and emerging priorities if budget stalemates persist for the rest of the year, the Biden administration warned. OMB on Friday detailed a long list of administration priorities it believes would be under-funded or misaligned in the event Congress can’t pass dedicated, full-year funding for the rest of the fiscal year. The current continuing resolution, which provided agencies with temporary stop-gap funding needed to avoid a government shutdown at the end of September, expires Dec. 3. The timeline to secure…