Bolstered GOP eyes quick finish for appropriations

Republican leaders are aiming for swift completion of the fiscal 2005 appropriations process to avoid any interference next year with Bush's second-term agenda.

• Peter Cohn
• November 4, 2004

Homeland Security spending bill bogged down by disputes

Debate on a variety of unrelated issues, from hurricane relief to highway spending, holds up passage of appropriations measure.

• Peter Cohn
• October 8, 2004

House shelves naming conferees for homeland bill

House GOP confident work on the spending bill can be completed next week.

• Peter Cohn
• October 1, 2004

Quick action expected on omnibus in November

• Peter Cohn
• October 1, 2004

Congress set to back measure to keep agencies open in new fiscal year

Approach would require lame-duck session after elections to finalize fiscal 2005 agency budgets.

• Peter Cohn
• September 29, 2004

Drought relief complicating passage of homeland bill

• Peter Cohn
• September 29, 2004

Senate leader works to break impasse on Homeland Security bill

• Peter Cohn
• September 21, 2004

House chairman may slow Homeland bill in customs fee dispute

"Blue slip" maneuver could kill the entire fiscal 2005 Homeland Security appropriations measure.

• Peter Cohn
• September 20, 2004

Temporary funding measure still a possibility

Congressional leaders discuss what can be completed in the time left before a scheduled Oct. 8 adjournment.

• Peter Cohn
• September 16, 2004

Appropriators seek to avoid long-term temporary funding measure

Agencies are already jockeying for exemptions from a continuing resolution that would temporarily freeze budgets at fiscal 2004 levels on Oct. 1.

• Peter Cohn
• September 15, 2004

Senate approps chief balks at adopting long-term continuing resolution

• Peter Cohn
• September 10, 2004

Senate nixes bid to boost Homeland Security spending

• Susan Davis and Peter Cohn
• September 9, 2004

Emergency funding requests highlight budget issues

The Senate has all but abandoned plans to bring up an fiscal 2005 omnibus spending package next month.

• Peter Cohn
• August 12, 2004

Shipbuilding firms battle over language in appropriations bill

Provision would kill administration regulations issued Feb. 20.

• Peter Cohn
• August 9, 2004

NASA faces big spending cuts

House Appropriations Committee plans to trim as much as $1 billion from President Bush's space budget.

• Peter Cohn
• July 20, 2004

Cuts could doom spending bill

NASA and National Science Foundation budget reductions may keep the VA-HUD appropriations bill from reaching the House floor.

• Peter Cohn
• July 20, 2004

Conferees may set spending levels in Defense bill

The move could put an end to the budget stalemate.

• Peter Cohn
• July 14, 2004

Defense appropriations bill becoming magnet for emergency spending

Forest Service looks to tack on $500 million in firefighting funds to the only fast-moving spending bill in town.

• Peter Cohn
• July 13, 2004

Negotiators struggle over $7 billion designation in Defense bill

• Peter Cohn
• July 12, 2004

Amid fresh warnings, Homeland Security bill stalls in Senate

Democrats, Republicans can't agree on parameters for discussing fiscal 2005 appropriations measure.

• Peter Cohn
• July 9, 2004