Congress Approves Funding
Extension
September 26, 2003 - The House and Senate Sept. 25
passed a continuing resolution (CR) to keep the federal government
running through Oct. 31. The CR will fund agencies whose appropriations
bills are not enacted by the Oct. 1 start of the new federal
fiscal year.
The CR will include a provision transferring $2.2 billion
in already appropriated FY 2004 funding for education back
into FY 2003. This move is needed to create room under the
FY 2004 spending cap for additional education funding and
is essential for the Labor-HHS-Education bill to move forward.
The provision was to have been added to the FY2004 Labor-HHS-Education
bill, but that measure is still hung up over Senate provisions
to block implementation of new rules for overtime pay and
to create additional revenues to pay for added special education
funding [see Washington
Highlights,
Sept. 19].
The CR is needed because Congress has completed action on
only three of the 13 regular appropriations bills: defense,
homeland security, and legislative branch.
Information:
Dave Moore, Senior Associate Vice President
AAMC Government Relations
dbmoore@aamc.org
(202) 828-0525
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