Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee, has urged lawmakers to patch up an agreement on the defense budget by Thanksgiving to avoid another shutdown, Military Times reported Tuesday.
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The government funding resolution that ended the shutdown has raised the wage of recently furloughed federal employees by 1 percent, Federal Times reported Thursday. Sean Reilly writes President Barack Obama could implement
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Democratic leaders in the Senate will push to nullify sequestration cuts in December as part of a mini-omnibus spending bill that would fund the government for fiscal year 2014, Defense News reported Monday.
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Legislation on budget allocations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice and Homeland Security will be subject to full review of the Senate Appropriations Committee this week, The Hill newspaper reported Tuesday. Erik
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Some members of the Senate Appropriations Committee are considering a return to the omnibus approach as a way to pass a continuing resolution before March 27, the date of a potential government
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