Pentagon to shuffle funds while waiting for supplemental

• Peter Cohn
• May 3, 2005

With budget in place, appropriators move into the spotlight

Difficult task of writing discretionary spending bills for the next fiscal year starts this week.

• Peter Cohn
• May 2, 2005

Supplemental entangled by border protection, earmarks

• Peter Cohn
• April 29, 2005

Negotiators set target for spending cuts

House, Senate lawmakers agree on a $40.5 billion target for reducing mandatory spending over five years.

• Peter Cohn
• April 27, 2005

White House presses Congress to wrap up supplemental work

• Peter Cohn
• April 26, 2005

Senate OKs $81 billion supplemental spending bill

Measure is significantly different than House bill and Bush administration request.

• Peter Cohn
• April 22, 2005

Senate blocks plans to mothball aircraft carrier, cancel cargo plane

Amendments to emergency spending bill keep USS John F. Kennedy in service and stop proposed cancellation of C-130J program.

• Peter Cohn
• April 21, 2005

Senate boosts food aid, debates supplemental add-ons

• Peter Cohn
• April 20, 2005

Senate signals unhappiness with war supplementals

Senators approve non-binding resolution urging that war funds be included in regular annual budget submissions.

• Peter Cohn
• April 19, 2005

Budget talks begin as White House touts supplemental

• Peter Cohn
• April 12, 2005

Supplemental growing as Senate debate nears

Amendments providing food aid for developing nations could total $320 million.

• Peter Cohn
• April 8, 2005

Senate war supplemental trims Bush plan, adds foreign aid

Bill includes nearly for $280 million for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau.

• Peter Cohn
• April 6, 2005

Negotiators might be close to bridging resolution gaps

• Peter Cohn
• April 1, 2005

House budget leader criticizes Senate plan

Budget Committee Chairman Jim Nussle, R-Iowa, said he was not confident the two chambers could resolve their differences in conference.

• Susan Davis and Peter Cohn
• March 15, 2005

Watchdog group finds $12 billion of pork in defense legislation

• Peter Cohn
• March 11, 2005

House budget cuts deeper than president's request

House Republicans are proposing almost $18 billion more in mandatory spending cuts than President Bush sought.

• Peter Cohn
• March 9, 2005

House panel boosts defense spending in supplemental

House Appropriations Committee wants to add $1.8 billion in military funds to fiscal 2005 war supplemental and cut $1.5 billion in foreign aid.

• Peter Cohn
• March 3, 2005

State Department spending reassigned in committee shuffle

• Peter Cohn
• March 2, 2005

Senate appropriations reorganization could come this week

Appropriations Committee Chairman Thad Cochran, R-Miss., considering modified version of House plan to restructure subcommittees.

• Peter Cohn
• February 28, 2005

War supplemental faces lengthy debate

Proposals to loosen immigration requirements could slow action on the legislation.

• Peter Cohn
• February 23, 2005