House passes $1.1 trillion government funding bill

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Market Watch: House passes $1.1 trillion government funding bill By Robert Schroeder

 

Published: Dec 18, 2015 9:52 a.m. ET

The House on Friday passed a $1.1 trillion bill to fund the federal government through the end of the fiscal year that ends on Sept. 30, 2016. The bill now heads to the Senate, which is expected to vote on it later Friday. In addition to funding the government, the bill ends the ban on U.S. crude oil exports and postpones the "Cadillac tax" on expensive health-care plans for two years. The House's vote was 316 to 113.

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Bovard: The GOP's New Budget Leaves No Boondoggle Behind

DECEMBER 18, 2015 Ryan McMaken

As you've likely heard already, the Republican Party in Congress has joined forces with the Democratic Party to make sure that no government program, no matter how pointless, does not have the suffer the indignity of even the tiniest spending cut.

James Bovard performs a post mortem on the budget "debate" forUSA Today. Among the "outrages," Bovard notes, are:

• The bill fails to block President Obama from delivering up to $3 billion to the United Nations Green Climate Fund, a partial product of the Paris climate summit. Republicans initially planned to block such funding unless the Senate was permitted to vote on the U.N. climate treaty. But since the omnibus bill failed to prohibit such payments, Obama will soon deliver $500 million in U.S. tax money to the fund — despite the legendary record of U.N. programs for corruption worse than Chicago.
• The bill fails to block perhaps the Environmental Protection Agency’s greatest land grab — its “waters of the United States” decree that seizes federal jurisdiction over 20 million acres that are sometimes wet. The EPA’s wetland crackdowns have been trounced by numerous judges. Republicans faltered even though the Government Accountability Office reported Monday that EPA had engaged in illegal “covert propaganda” to promote this policy. https://mises.org/blog/bovard-gops-new-budget-leaves-no-boondoggle-behind

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Senate sends $1.8 trillion deal to Obama

Alexander Bolton - 12/18/15 11:58 AM EST

The 65-33 vote effectively wraps up the congressional session for the year.

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/263709-senate-sends-18-trillion-deal-to-obama

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http://politicalhat.com/2015/12/17/the-intentional-fail-of-the-gop/

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