CR Extended Until Next Congress
by Matt Lewis, 12/11/2006
On Saturday morning, the President signed an extension of a stopgap continuing resolution, making few changes to its destructive funding formula. It will last until February 15th. CQ ($) reports:
The stopgap spending measure does not contain major deviations from the funding formula in the previous resolutions, despite lobbying by veterans’ groups for $3 billion in additional veterans’ health care money.
The resolution calls for agencies that have not yet had their fiscal 2007 appropriations measures enacted to get the lowest of the House-passed, Senate-passed or previous year funding level.
But in a nod to concerns that veterans health care would be harmed by that formula, the resolution allows the Veterans Affairs Department to transfer up to $684 million to the Veterans Health Administration for medical services.
