US Senate OKs 1-Mo Emergency Extension Of Federal Government Funding Levels
By Corey Boles, Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Facing a midnight deadline, the U.S. Senate Wednesday approved an emergency one-month extension of current funding levels for the federal government.
The extension is necessary because lawmakers have been unable to complete work on the 12-must pass spending bills required to keep the various arms of the federal government running each year.
With the federal government's fiscal year in its waning hours, all non- essential parts of the government would have been required to shut down at midnight had the extension not been agreed to.
The Senate voted 62-38 to agree to the extension.
House lawmakers voted strongly in favor of the measure last week.
President Barack Obama must sign it into law by midnight to avert the shutdown.
The extension was attached to one of the spending bills - legislation to fund Congress and its related agencies. It is the first of the dozen bills that lawmakers have finished.
As such, Democrats were accused by their Republican counterparts of putting Congress' interests before the rest of the country's. This bill was most likely completed first as it is the least controversial of the 12 pieces of legislation.
The minority party was also critical of the package because it includes language allowing the U.S. Postal Service to defer a $4 billion payment to its employees' pension fund.
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The article actually does say non-essential. My question is, why are they being operated in the first place if they are not essential?
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If this happened would our military have to stop killing brown people around the world for Empire and Profit?
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Whatever 7:48,lol. You and the shills of your kind have been spouting this crap for years and years.......and GUESS WHAT? NOTHING HAS HAPPENED,ROFLMAO!!!!!
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10:01 you come here and ridicule posts when you think in your little mind, that everything lasts forever? EVERYTHING resets back to zero,eventually. Your Job, your life,your precious stock, your wife, your husband, your bank account, your health,your mind..the list goes on. If you believe that things will continue on its flight path to the moon, you deserve everything you get, plus 1. Its mindless people like you that enter these sites are the ones that have, own, and keep ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
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ReplyDeleteAt the same time, it is humorous to see those who think everything is going to be just fine on the current path we are on forever. They mine as well believe money grows on trees and oil is an infinite resource.