CD221: Kicking the Funding Can

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Recommended Episodes Politics Politics Politics CARES Act - The Trillions for COVID-19 Law, Nuclear Desperation, Bills : September 22, 359-17-1 : September 30, 84-10 Outline Extends government funding from 2020 at the same levels until December 11, 2021 Gives permission to the Secretary of the Navy to spend over $1.6 billion to enter into a contract for who Columbia class submarines Amends the CARES Act to extend the expiration date of , which allows any government agency to to change their contracts to allow the government to pay for up to 40 Horus per week of paid leave that contractors pay for their employees. This only applies to contractors who can’t work because their facilities are closed and can’t do their work remotely. The expiration is shifted from September 30 to December 11. Extends the authority from the CARES Act, which , for the Library of Congress to reimburse the Little Scholars Child Development Center and Tiny Findings Development Center for salaries for employees who can’t work due to COVID-19 closures in the capitol. It also extends the authority for the government to pay the salaries of contractors that work on the capitol until the end of the public emergency. The authorities are extended until the end of the public emergency declared by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Adds $728 billion to the $550 billion for loan guarantees for mortgage backed securities Extends the borrowing limit for the Commodity Credit Corporation to reimburse it for net realized losses as of September 17, 2020. Allows Federal funds to be used to cover operating losses for food and beverage service on Amtrak Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish fees ranging between $1,500 and $2,500 for applications for employment based immigration. Permanently reauthorizes antitrust provisions that encourages corporations to cooperate in antirust civil cases by limiting the fines that can be imposed upon cooperating companies. Expands eligibility for food stamps for children who usually get meals provided at school to include children in hybrid model schools and day cares. Extends the states’ authority to apply for waivers for school meal requirements in order to provide meals in a COVID-safe way until September 30, 2021 Gives the states the ability to extend certification periods for households receiving food assistance to December 31, 2021, and to adjust interview requirements through June 30, 2021, if they want to, without getting permission from the Secretary of Agriculture Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from using funding, facilities, or authorities of the Commodity Credit Corporation to provide payments to refiners or importers of fossil fuels unless the payments are for biofuels and prohibits the Commodity Credit Corporation from exchanging fossil fuel products for agricultural products until the end of March 2021. Articles/Documents Article: By Manu Raju and Ted Barrett, CNN, October 8, 2020 Article: By Jacob Knutson, Axios, October 8, 2020 Article: By Patricia Murphy and Greg Bluestein, AJC, October 8, 2020 Article: By O. 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Larter and Joe Gould, Defense News, September 3, 2020 Article: By Megan Eckstein, USNI News, September 1, 2020 Article: By Mike Lillis and Scott Wong, The Hill, August 31, 2020 Article: By Steve Morris , Government Accountability Office, August 21, 2020 Article: , By Darla Mercado, CNBC, June 11, 2020 Article: , Up to Us, June 3, 2020 Article: By Megan Eckstein, USNI News, June 2, 2020 Article: By Stephanie Kelly, Reuters, March 25, 2020 Article: By Megan Stubbs, Congressional Research Service, September 4, 2019 Article: By Jonathan Chait, New York Intelligencer, September 18, 2018 Additional Resources , Congressional Research Service Book: , By David Dayen, July, 2020 Bill: , govtrack, July 27, 2020 Blog: , CLASP: The Center for Law and Social Policy, 2020 Homepage: , Tiny Findings, 2020 Report: , House Committee on the Budget, Chairman John Yarmuth, December 3, 2019 2017 Summary Statement and Initiatives: , HUD, 2017 , Library of Congress, 2015 , General Dynamics , OpenSecrets.org , OpenSecrets.org , OpenSecrets.org Appropriations: , OpenSecrets.org Appropriations: , OpenSecrets.org Origins & Development: From the Constitution to the Modern House , History, Art & Archives, United States House of Representatives Sound Clip Sources Hearing: , U.S. House of Representatives, House Appropriations Committee, September 22, 2020 Transcript: 9:00 Steny Hoyer: Briefly want to say to the Appropriations Committee, congratulations for doing your work. I know there was controversy, everybody didn't support it. But we passed 10 of the 12 appropriation bills almost two months ago. Clearly sufficient time to reach agreement and pass the appropriation bills, not a CR. CR is a recognition of failure. Failure of to get our work done in a timely fashion. And I regret that I take some credit for passing 10 bills last year, in June, and 10 bills this year in July. I pushed the Appropriations Committee pretty hard. Staff worked hard, members worked hard. And we got our bills done.The Senate has not introduced - has not marked up - a single bill in committee. There's no bill out of committee, there's no bills on the floor, which means that the Senate has essentially abandoned the appropriations process. Madam Speaker, that's not the way the Congress the United States ought to work. 11:00 Steny Hoyer: From now, until hopefully before December 11, that's a Friday - we're scheduled to break for Christmas and the holidays - I'm hopeful that everyone will put their heads together to get the appropriation process done. And we'll probably do it in an omnibus, not single appropriation bills, which is not a good way to do it either. When I joined the Appropriations Committee, and we passed one bill at a time, the Senate passed one bill at a time, and we came to conference and sat down together, the members of the Defense Committee, the members of the Treasury, postal committee and labor health committees, we came together individually, and we worked out agreements between the two bodies. That is the way it ought to work. It's not working that way. And a world of alternatives, this is the best we have. So we need to take it. 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