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The House unveiled and advanced a three-week Continuing Resolution (CR) with an expiration date of March 11, as top appropriators from both Chambers continued to negotiate the final details of an omnibus funding bill for the remainder of FY 2022. Key healthcare committees in the House and Senate held hearings on topics including ARPA-H, youth mental health, workforce shortages, and dual eligible beneficiaries.
House Advances Short-Term CR, Senate Expected to Follow Suit. On February 7, House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) introduced a short-term continuing resolution (CR) that would provide temporary funding for federal operations to give top appropriators more time to complete negotiations on the details of an FY 2022 omnibus appropriations bill.
The current CR is set to expire on February 18. The new CR will provide government funding through March 11, giving appropriators an additional three weeks to hammer out the details of an omnibus package, and potentially include other priorities like disaster or COVID relief. In a sign of progress, a broad agreement was announced February 9 on a framework for both defense and non-defense spending levels.
The House passed the three-week CR on February 8 by a vote of 272-162, with 51 Republicans joining Democrats to approve the bill, and just one Democrat...
A man in his 40s who raised allegations of overseas sexual misconduct involving Democratic Party of Korea candidate Park Ji-won ahead of the June 3 local elections has been referred to the Prosecu...