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• CHALLENGES FACING FY17 APPROPRIATIONS IN CONGRESS - June 3, 2016

• Agency Funding in Limbo as House and Senate Forge Different Paths

  By Eric Katz, Government Executive

  Funding federal agencies for fiscal 2017 should be easier than most years, as a two-year budget agreement has already set the top-line spending totals.

  In Congress, of course, nothing really comes that easy.

  When the Energy and Water Appropriations Act failed on the House floor last week, it marked the latest clash in months of disagreement over how to proceed with the line-by-line agency funding bills to meet the overall spending cap. The energy and water bill ended up failing by a large margin after nearly all Democrats and many Republicans voted against it.

  To read the full article, please click here.

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