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WTVY, Dothan
April 14, 2018
Richard Shelby Tuesday was appointed the new chairman of the Appropriations Committee, a post with great influence over more than $1 trillion in annual spending. He will replace Mississippi Republican Thad Cochran, who recently retired from the Senate due to poor health. Shelby said he doesn't knowÃâà...
AL.com
April 13, 2018
The extent to how much the state will benefit by having Richard Shelby as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee will depend on how Alabama's senior senator views the responsibilities of his new role: Does he want to continue his legacy of bringing home the bacon, or earn national praise forÃâà...
Newton County Times
April 13, 2018
Boozman Named Chairman of Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs and related agencies ... WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR) has been chosen to serve as Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction,Ãâà...
AviationPros.com
April 13, 2018
Airports Council International – North America (ACI-NA) on April 12, congratulated Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama on his confirmation as the new chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. “I congratulate Senator Richard Shelby on his new position as chairman of the Senate AppropriationsÃâà...
SpacePolicyOnline.com
April 12, 2018
Senator Richard Shelby (R-Alabama) was appointed as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee today, succeeding Thad Cochran (R-Mississippi) who retired due to illness. Shelby had chaired the Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) subcommittee that funds NASA and NOAA, but decided to takeÃâà...
New York Magazine
April 12, 2018
Reports continue to bubble up that the White House and its conservative House GOP allies are thinking about using the super-obscure “rescission” process to undo or redo a vast swath of appropriations that were enacted in the omnibus spending bill Trump signed less than three weeks ago. The idea is toÃâà...
Law360
April 12, 2018
Richard Shelby, R-Ala., will take over the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, giving him chief authority over Senate spending legislation, after ... his new assignment — following an earlier vote among his committee colleagues — was unanimously approved by the Senate on Tuesday evening.
Military Times
April 11, 2018
WASHINGTON — Senate officials on Tuesday named a new leader for the chamber's powerful appropriations committee, a move that directly impacts the upcoming ... Senate lawmakers have reached a two-year deal that would set defense spending at $700 billion for 2018 and $716 billion for 2019.
Homeland Preparedness News
April 4, 2018
Reed, the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Durbin, the vice chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, wrote that funds appropriated by Congress “are limited to the purpose for which they were intended.” The Department of Defense Appropriations ActÃâà...
Roll Call
March 22, 2018
... dating to the latter's time as majority leader of the Idaho state Senate. The omnibus agreement arrived from the House carrying a provision that would make law language to name the wilderness area, authored by Republican Rep. Mike Simpson, a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee.
WJTV
March 22, 2018
The Clarion Ledger reports that state Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Buck Clarke appeared alert as he was taken from the building on a ... House and Senate negotiators face a Saturday night deadline to agree on details of a $6 billion state government budget for the year that begins July 1.
Boyertown Berk Montgomery Newspapers
March 21, 2018
Senate Bill 748 establishes the Public Safety Facilities Act which ensures there is adequate notice and consideration of any proposed state correctional institution closures, as well as other structures that employ law enforcement staff. The bill requires specific notification requirements and the developmentÃâà...
kfor.com
March 20, 2018
OKLAHOMA CITY - Facing prison overcrowding, lack of pay raises spanning more than a decade and wanting to expand educational and medical programs for inmates are just some of the items detailed by the state's department of corrections director before a Senate appropriations hearing TuesdayÃâà...
bctv.org
March 20, 2018
HARRISBURG – Monday, the Senate Appropriation Committee unanimously passed bipartisan legislation to reform the way the lieutenant governor is elected in Pennsylvania. Senate Bill 761 would amend the state's constitution to allow gubernatorial candidates to select their running mate subsequent toÃâà...
Roll Call
March 19, 2018
For Senate Appropriations Chairman Thad Cochran, resigning April 1, it's a “mic drop” moment as the ailing 80-year-old Mississippi Republican will walk off the stage just after the omnibus measure is expected to become law. Cochran's departure leaves his state with an enormous loss of clout that he willÃâà...
Press Herald
March 14, 2018
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee, finishes a television news interview on ... Susan Collins, who also serves on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Pompeo's tenure at the CIA helped prepare the former RepublicanÃâà...
WyoFile
March 13, 2018
Bruce Burns (R-Sheridan), the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. Giving each side a chance to enact its preferred funding mechanisms for one year was the clearest compromise on the budget bill, Larsen said. It would be difficult to test the value of the House's revenue strategies, whichÃâà...
E&E News
March 13, 2018
House and Senate appropriators want to finish writing the 12 annual spending bills by Wednesday, then hand them off to party leaders in both chambers who will have to resolve any ... Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), chairman of the House Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee, late last week. SimpsonÃâà...
Vox
March 12, 2018
1) Congress will have passed a long-term spending bill. This would come in the form of an omnibus, which jams together 12 individual appropriations bills into one massive funding package. Senate and House appropriators have been working to write the omnibus over the past several weeks, but there areÃâà...
Daily Commercial
March 12, 2018
With the backing of Corcoran, a proposal (HB 33 and SB 90) to allow law-enforcement officers to pull over people for texting while driving cruised through the House and had advanced through the Senate. But Senate Appropriations Chairman Rob Bradley, R-Fleming Island, let the proposal die in theÃâà...
Casper Star-Tribune Online
March 10, 2018
This budget blends priorities reflected in the debate in the Wyoming House and Senate. The House and Senate approach funding for state government through two different lenses. Understanding that each chamber approaches budget negotiations from different perspectives allows us to work quicklyÃâà...
Montgomery Advertiser
March 9, 2018
Richard Shelby is in line to chair the powerful Appropriations Committee, putting another Southerner in the key post when Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran's ... Richard Shelby, R-Ala., said he's hopeful he will get the job as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee now that Sen. Thad Cochran hasÃâà...
Jackson Clarion Ledger
March 9, 2018
It's not clear yet what committee assignments Cochran's replacement will get. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., said it will be a loss not to have Cochran at the helm of the Appropriations Committee. “It goes without saying that it's a tremendous help to have your senior senator be the chairman of appropriations,”Ãâà...
DefenseNews.com
March 5, 2018
A bipartisan group of senators with authority over military readiness are urging Senate appropriators to grant flexibility in spending its large, but late, budget ... The seven senators on the Senate Armed Services' readiness subpanel have asked the leaders of the Senate Appropriations subpanel to considerÃâà...
DefenseNews.com
March 5, 2018
The chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee and its subcommittee on defense, Republican Thad Cochran of Mississippi, has announced he ... said in a statement Monday that he will fulfill his responsibilities to Mississippi and the Senate “through the completion of the 2018 appropriations cycle.”.
Inside Defense
March 5, 2018
Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Thad Cochran (R-MS), citing his failing health, plans to resign from office by April 1, according to an announcement from his office. "I regret my health has become an ongoing challenge," he said. "I intend to fulfill my responsibilities and commitments to theÃâà...
Penn State News
February 27, 2018
Barron was joined by the leaders of Pennsylvania's other state-related institutions of higher education to address the State Senate Appropriations Committee at the state Capitol Building. The leaders, including Temple University President Richard Englert; University of Pittsburgh Chancellor PatrickÃâà...
Roll Call
December 31, 1999
“It's not just who's the chairman or the ranking [member] of the Appropriations Committee, it's the leadership,” Shelby said. “If we [want to] get bills on the floor earlier, we're going to have to have the leadership, both sides, move in a bipartisan way.” A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell,Ãâà...
Columbia Daily Tribune
December 31, 1999
Budget deliberations that begin Tuesday in the Senate Appropriations Committee will likely shift money from general education accounts to line items that have been vulnerable to withholdings in recent years. Sen. Dan Brown, R-Rolla and chairman of the committee, said Friday that he wants to put moreÃâà...
