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Jeff Carter

Mon, Sep 9, 2019 9:49 PM

Here is the update I promised last week! — Jeff
FY 2020 Appropriations. The Senate is moving forward with their appropriations markups this week. Tomorrow the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee will mark up its bill at 10am and the Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee will mark up its bill at 11:30am.
The Senate will then zoom ahead — bypassing the subcommittees for both the State-Foreign Operations bill and the Energy and Water bills — and get those two bills plus the Defense and Labor-HHS-Education bill marked up in full Committee on Thursday.
The Senate Appropriations Committee is also slated to vote Thursday on the allocations for each of the 12 subcommittee — i.e. the total they can spend. CEF expects this will be a contentious markup (fun!) because Democrats will not be satisfied with the allocation of non-defense discretionary (NDD) funding. That would be my read as well. Most importantly, CEF has been told that Labor-HHS-Education may not get as much of an allocation as Democrats want. From CEF’s latest update: “Last year the bills had bipartisan support, and neither side offered ‘poison pill’ policy riders during committee debate. That may not be the case this year, although when Congress negotiated the budget agreement this summer that raised the discretionary caps, there was an informal agreement reached not to push such policy riders on the appropriations bills.” We’ll see.
Anyway, expectations are (I think I’ve warned everyone about this all summer) that the Senate Labor-HHS-Education bill will have significantly less funding than the House bill, because (a) the total amount of NDD funding for all twelve bills is less than the total the House assumed this spring; (b) the Senate is reportedly preparing to use a significant chunk of the NDD increase for border wall funding; and (c) the cap agreement provided less funding for the biennial census outside the caps, which may mean they will reach into more NDD for the census than the House had assumed when they passed their bill.
Why is this important? Less funding appropriated by the Senate for Labor-HHS-Education means a strong possibility that the increase in funding for adult education in the House bill will not show up in the Senate bill. Not because the Senate has anything particularly against adult ed, but because they have less money money to play with - I expect many of the increases proposed in the House bill not to make it into the Senate bill.
CEF says not to expect the Senate Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee to release bill text or report language explaining the funding levels for each program tomorrow. More likely we’ll see one of those press releases they like to send out that highlights certain aspects of their bill. But not all the details.
What happens Thursday? Again I’ll let CEF explain:
“…Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Shelby (R-AL) has talked of packaging the Defense, Labor-HHS-Education, and possibly other bills together for Senate floor consideration. Based on Thursday’s announced markup, it’s likely that he plans to bring a package of all four bills to the Senate floor the week of September 16. That will only occur if there is support from 60 Senators – something that might not happen if the funding levels in the Labor-HHS-Education bill are lower than what Democrats support. The House has passed 10 of the 12 appropriations bills, and is now planning to debate an extension of current funding – a continuing resolution, or ‘CR’ – the week of September 16. That is an acknowledgement that Congress will not have passed final versions of all government funding bills by the September 30th expiration of current funding. But even passing a CR may not be easy or straightforward; the Administration has reportedly submitted of ‘anomalies’ for additional funding that it wants in the bill that includes language allowing construction of a southern border wall beyond the area currently authorized and funded, among many other items. The Administration is assuming a CR runs through mid-December but Democratic House leaders have suggested a CR that ends before Thanksgiving.”
Fun stuff.
Other News. Last week Congresswoman Susan Davis, a Democrat from California who serves on the House education committee, announced she won't run for reelection next year. Davis chairs the subcommittee overseeing higher education, and has at times in the past spoken out at hearings on the lack of sufficient funding support for adult education.

Jeff

Jeff Carter
Cell: (202) 374-4387 | @jeffcrtr

Senior Policy Advisor
National Coalition for Literacy
www.national-coalition-literacy.org http://www.national-coalition-literacy.org/
jcarter@literacypolicy.org mailto:jcarter@literacypolicy.org
Immediate Past President, Committee for Education Funding

Executive Director
Physicians for Social Responsibility
1111 14th St, NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20005
www.psr.org http://www.psr.org/ | jcarter@psr.org mailto:jcarter@psr.org

Here is the update I promised last week! — Jeff FY 2020 Appropriations. The Senate is moving forward with their appropriations markups this week. Tomorrow the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee will mark up its bill at 10am and the Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee will mark up its bill at 11:30am. The Senate will then zoom ahead — bypassing the subcommittees for both the State-Foreign Operations bill and the Energy and Water bills — and get those two bills plus the Defense and Labor-HHS-Education bill marked up in full Committee on Thursday. The Senate Appropriations Committee is also slated to vote Thursday on the allocations for each of the 12 subcommittee — i.e. the total they can spend. CEF expects this will be a contentious markup (fun!) because Democrats will not be satisfied with the allocation of non-defense discretionary (NDD) funding. That would be my read as well. Most importantly, CEF has been told that Labor-HHS-Education may not get as much of an allocation as Democrats want. From CEF’s latest update: “Last year the bills had bipartisan support, and neither side offered ‘poison pill’ policy riders during committee debate. That may not be the case this year, although when Congress negotiated the budget agreement this summer that raised the discretionary caps, there was an informal agreement reached not to push such policy riders on the appropriations bills.” We’ll see. Anyway, expectations are (I think I’ve warned everyone about this all summer) that the Senate Labor-HHS-Education bill will have significantly less funding than the House bill, because (a) the total amount of NDD funding for all twelve bills is less than the total the House assumed this spring; (b) the Senate is reportedly preparing to use a significant chunk of the NDD increase for border wall funding; and (c) the cap agreement provided less funding for the biennial census outside the caps, which may mean they will reach into more NDD for the census than the House had assumed when they passed their bill. Why is this important? Less funding appropriated by the Senate for Labor-HHS-Education means a strong possibility that the increase in funding for adult education in the House bill will not show up in the Senate bill. Not because the Senate has anything particularly against adult ed, but because they have less money money to play with - I expect many of the increases proposed in the House bill not to make it into the Senate bill. CEF says not to expect the Senate Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee to release bill text or report language explaining the funding levels for each program tomorrow. More likely we’ll see one of those press releases they like to send out that highlights certain aspects of their bill. But not all the details. What happens Thursday? Again I’ll let CEF explain: “…Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Shelby (R-AL) has talked of packaging the Defense, Labor-HHS-Education, and possibly other bills together for Senate floor consideration. Based on Thursday’s announced markup, it’s likely that he plans to bring a package of all four bills to the Senate floor the week of September 16. That will only occur if there is support from 60 Senators – something that might not happen if the funding levels in the Labor-HHS-Education bill are lower than what Democrats support. The House has passed 10 of the 12 appropriations bills, and is now planning to debate an extension of current funding – a continuing resolution, or ‘CR’ – the week of September 16. That is an acknowledgement that Congress will not have passed final versions of all government funding bills by the September 30th expiration of current funding. But even passing a CR may not be easy or straightforward; the Administration has reportedly submitted of ‘anomalies’ for additional funding that it wants in the bill that includes language allowing construction of a southern border wall beyond the area currently authorized and funded, among many other items. The Administration is assuming a CR runs through mid-December but Democratic House leaders have suggested a CR that ends before Thanksgiving.” Fun stuff. Other News. Last week Congresswoman Susan Davis, a Democrat from California who serves on the House education committee, announced she won't run for reelection next year. Davis chairs the subcommittee overseeing higher education, and has at times in the past spoken out at hearings on the lack of sufficient funding support for adult education. Jeff Jeff Carter Cell: (202) 374-4387 | @jeffcrtr Senior Policy Advisor National Coalition for Literacy www.national-coalition-literacy.org <http://www.national-coalition-literacy.org/> jcarter@literacypolicy.org <mailto:jcarter@literacypolicy.org> Immediate Past President, Committee for Education Funding Executive Director Physicians for Social Responsibility 1111 14th St, NW, Suite 700 Washington, DC 20005 www.psr.org <http://www.psr.org/> | jcarter@psr.org <mailto:jcarter@psr.org>

JC

Jeff Carter

Wed, Sep 11, 2019 4:26 AM

Update: The Senate Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee markup of the FY 2020 funding bill, scheduled for Tuesday, “collapsed in a partisan spat over abortion policy” according to Roll Call, and was cancelled. No new date was set.

Jeff

On Sep 9, 2019, at 5:49 PM, Jeff Carter jcarter@literacypolicy.org wrote:

Here is the update I promised last week! — Jeff
FY 2020 Appropriations. The Senate is moving forward with their appropriations markups this week. Tomorrow the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee will mark up its bill at 10am and the Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee will mark up its bill at 11:30am.
The Senate will then zoom ahead — bypassing the subcommittees for both the State-Foreign Operations bill and the Energy and Water bills — and get those two bills plus the Defense and Labor-HHS-Education bill marked up in full Committee on Thursday.
The Senate Appropriations Committee is also slated to vote Thursday on the allocations for each of the 12 subcommittee — i.e. the total they can spend. CEF expects this will be a contentious markup (fun!) because Democrats will not be satisfied with the allocation of non-defense discretionary (NDD) funding. That would be my read as well. Most importantly, CEF has been told that Labor-HHS-Education may not get as much of an allocation as Democrats want. From CEF’s latest update: “Last year the bills had bipartisan support, and neither side offered ‘poison pill’ policy riders during committee debate. That may not be the case this year, although when Congress negotiated the budget agreement this summer that raised the discretionary caps, there was an informal agreement reached not to push such policy riders on the appropriations bills.” We’ll see.
Anyway, expectations are (I think I’ve warned everyone about this all summer) that the Senate Labor-HHS-Education bill will have significantly less funding than the House bill, because (a) the total amount of NDD funding for all twelve bills is less than the total the House assumed this spring; (b) the Senate is reportedly preparing to use a significant chunk of the NDD increase for border wall funding; and (c) the cap agreement provided less funding for the biennial census outside the caps, which may mean they will reach into more NDD for the census than the House had assumed when they passed their bill.
Why is this important? Less funding appropriated by the Senate for Labor-HHS-Education means a strong possibility that the increase in funding for adult education in the House bill will not show up in the Senate bill. Not because the Senate has anything particularly against adult ed, but because they have less money money to play with - I expect many of the increases proposed in the House bill not to make it into the Senate bill.
CEF says not to expect the Senate Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee to release bill text or report language explaining the funding levels for each program tomorrow. More likely we’ll see one of those press releases they like to send out that highlights certain aspects of their bill. But not all the details.
What happens Thursday? Again I’ll let CEF explain:
“…Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Shelby (R-AL) has talked of packaging the Defense, Labor-HHS-Education, and possibly other bills together for Senate floor consideration. Based on Thursday’s announced markup, it’s likely that he plans to bring a package of all four bills to the Senate floor the week of September 16. That will only occur if there is support from 60 Senators – something that might not happen if the funding levels in the Labor-HHS-Education bill are lower than what Democrats support. The House has passed 10 of the 12 appropriations bills, and is now planning to debate an extension of current funding – a continuing resolution, or ‘CR’ – the week of September 16. That is an acknowledgement that Congress will not have passed final versions of all government funding bills by the September 30th expiration of current funding. But even passing a CR may not be easy or straightforward; the Administration has reportedly submitted of ‘anomalies’ for additional funding that it wants in the bill that includes language allowing construction of a southern border wall beyond the area currently authorized and funded, among many other items. The Administration is assuming a CR runs through mid-December but Democratic House leaders have suggested a CR that ends before Thanksgiving.”
Fun stuff.
Other News. Last week Congresswoman Susan Davis, a Democrat from California who serves on the House education committee, announced she won't run for reelection next year. Davis chairs the subcommittee overseeing higher education, and has at times in the past spoken out at hearings on the lack of sufficient funding support for adult education.

Jeff

Jeff Carter
Cell: (202) 374-4387 | @jeffcrtr

Senior Policy Advisor
National Coalition for Literacy
www.national-coalition-literacy.org
jcarter@literacypolicy.org
Immediate Past President, Committee for Education Funding

Executive Director
Physicians for Social Responsibility
1111 14th St, NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20005
www.psr.org | jcarter@psr.org

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Update: The Senate Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee markup of the FY 2020 funding bill, scheduled for Tuesday, “collapsed in a partisan spat over abortion policy” according to Roll Call, and was cancelled. No new date was set. Jeff > On Sep 9, 2019, at 5:49 PM, Jeff Carter <jcarter@literacypolicy.org> wrote: > > Here is the update I promised last week! — Jeff > FY 2020 Appropriations. The Senate is moving forward with their appropriations markups this week. Tomorrow the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee will mark up its bill at 10am and the Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee will mark up its bill at 11:30am. > The Senate will then zoom ahead — bypassing the subcommittees for both the State-Foreign Operations bill and the Energy and Water bills — and get those two bills plus the Defense and Labor-HHS-Education bill marked up in full Committee on Thursday. > The Senate Appropriations Committee is also slated to vote Thursday on the allocations for each of the 12 subcommittee — i.e. the total they can spend. CEF expects this will be a contentious markup (fun!) because Democrats will not be satisfied with the allocation of non-defense discretionary (NDD) funding. That would be my read as well. Most importantly, CEF has been told that Labor-HHS-Education may not get as much of an allocation as Democrats want. From CEF’s latest update: “Last year the bills had bipartisan support, and neither side offered ‘poison pill’ policy riders during committee debate. That may not be the case this year, although when Congress negotiated the budget agreement this summer that raised the discretionary caps, there was an informal agreement reached not to push such policy riders on the appropriations bills.” We’ll see. > Anyway, expectations are (I think I’ve warned everyone about this all summer) that the Senate Labor-HHS-Education bill will have significantly less funding than the House bill, because (a) the total amount of NDD funding for all twelve bills is less than the total the House assumed this spring; (b) the Senate is reportedly preparing to use a significant chunk of the NDD increase for border wall funding; and (c) the cap agreement provided less funding for the biennial census outside the caps, which may mean they will reach into more NDD for the census than the House had assumed when they passed their bill. > Why is this important? Less funding appropriated by the Senate for Labor-HHS-Education means a strong possibility that the increase in funding for adult education in the House bill will not show up in the Senate bill. Not because the Senate has anything particularly against adult ed, but because they have less money money to play with - I expect many of the increases proposed in the House bill not to make it into the Senate bill. > CEF says not to expect the Senate Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee to release bill text or report language explaining the funding levels for each program tomorrow. More likely we’ll see one of those press releases they like to send out that highlights certain aspects of their bill. But not all the details. > What happens Thursday? Again I’ll let CEF explain: > “…Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Shelby (R-AL) has talked of packaging the Defense, Labor-HHS-Education, and possibly other bills together for Senate floor consideration. Based on Thursday’s announced markup, it’s likely that he plans to bring a package of all four bills to the Senate floor the week of September 16. That will only occur if there is support from 60 Senators – something that might not happen if the funding levels in the Labor-HHS-Education bill are lower than what Democrats support. The House has passed 10 of the 12 appropriations bills, and is now planning to debate an extension of current funding – a continuing resolution, or ‘CR’ – the week of September 16. That is an acknowledgement that Congress will not have passed final versions of all government funding bills by the September 30th expiration of current funding. But even passing a CR may not be easy or straightforward; the Administration has reportedly submitted of ‘anomalies’ for additional funding that it wants in the bill that includes language allowing construction of a southern border wall beyond the area currently authorized and funded, among many other items. The Administration is assuming a CR runs through mid-December but Democratic House leaders have suggested a CR that ends before Thanksgiving.” > Fun stuff. > Other News. Last week Congresswoman Susan Davis, a Democrat from California who serves on the House education committee, announced she won't run for reelection next year. Davis chairs the subcommittee overseeing higher education, and has at times in the past spoken out at hearings on the lack of sufficient funding support for adult education. > > Jeff > > Jeff Carter > Cell: (202) 374-4387 | @jeffcrtr > > > > Senior Policy Advisor > National Coalition for Literacy > www.national-coalition-literacy.org > jcarter@literacypolicy.org > Immediate Past President, Committee for Education Funding > > > Executive Director > Physicians for Social Responsibility > 1111 14th St, NW, Suite 700 > Washington, DC 20005 > www.psr.org | jcarter@psr.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > National Coalition for Literacy Members mailing list > Members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org > To unsubscribe: http://lists.national-coalition-literacy.org/mailman/listinfo/members_lists.national-coalition-literacy.org

DK

Deborah Kennedy

Wed, Sep 11, 2019 12:45 PM

Thanks for the update, Jeff.

Here's the link to the full Roll Call article, for those who are interested:
http://www.rollcall.com/news/policy/border-wall-other-disputes-sidetrack-senate-spending-work

Deborah

---- On Wed, 11 Sep 2019 00:26:02 -0400 Jeff Carter mailto:jcarter@literacypolicy.org wrote ----

Update: The Senate Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee markup of the FY 2020 funding bill, scheduled for Tuesday, “collapsed in a partisan spat over abortion policy” according to Roll Call, and was cancelled. No new date was set.

Jeff

On Sep 9, 2019, at 5:49 PM, Jeff Carter mailto:jcarter@literacypolicy.org wrote:

Here is the update I promised last week! — Jeff

FY 2020 Appropriations. The Senate is moving forward with their appropriations markups this week. Tomorrow the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee will mark up its bill at 10am and the Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee will mark up its bill at 11:30am.

The Senate will then zoom ahead — bypassing the subcommittees for both the State-Foreign Operations bill and the Energy and Water bills — and get those two bills plus the Defense and Labor-HHS-Education bill marked up in full Committee on Thursday.

The Senate Appropriations Committee is also slated to vote Thursday on the allocations for each of the 12 subcommittee — i.e. the total they can spend. CEF expects this will be a contentious markup (fun!) because Democrats will not be satisfied with the allocation of non-defense discretionary (NDD) funding. That would be my read as well. Most importantly, CEF has been told that Labor-HHS-Education may not get as much of an allocation as Democrats want. From CEF’s latest update: “Last year the bills had bipartisan support, and neither side offered ‘poison pill’ policy riders during committee debate. That may not be the case this year, although when Congress negotiated the budget agreement this summer that raised the discretionary caps, there was an informal agreement reached not to push such policy riders on the appropriations bills.” We’ll see.

Anyway, expectations are (I think I’ve warned everyone about this all summer) that the Senate Labor-HHS-Education bill will have significantly less funding than the House bill, because (a) the total amount of NDD funding for all twelve bills is less than the total the House assumed this spring; (b) the Senate is reportedly preparing to use a significant chunk of the NDD increase for border wall funding; and (c) the cap agreement provided less funding for the biennial census outside the caps, which may mean they will reach into more NDD for the census than the House had assumed when they passed their bill.

Why is this important? Less funding appropriated by the Senate for Labor-HHS-Education means a strong possibility that the increase in funding for adult education in the House bill will not show up in the Senate bill. Not because the Senate has anything particularly against adult ed, but because they have less money money to play with - I expect many of the increases proposed in the House bill not to make it into the Senate bill.

CEF says not to expect the Senate Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee to release bill text or report language explaining the funding levels for each program tomorrow. More likely we’ll see one of those press releases they like to send out that highlights certain aspects of their bill. But not all the details.

What happens Thursday? Again I’ll let CEF explain:

“…Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Shelby (R-AL) has talked of packaging the Defense, Labor-HHS-Education, and possibly other bills together for Senate floor consideration. Based on Thursday’s announced markup, it’s likely that he plans to bring a package of all four bills to the Senate floor the week of September 16. That will only occur if there is support from 60 Senators – something that might not happen if the funding levels in the Labor-HHS-Education bill are lower than what Democrats support. The House has passed 10 of the 12 appropriations bills, and is now planning to debate an extension of current funding – a continuing resolution, or ‘CR’ – the week of September 16. That is an acknowledgement that Congress will not have passed final versions of all government funding bills by the September 30th expiration of current funding. But even passing a CR may not be easy or straightforward; the Administration has reportedly submitted of ‘anomalies’ for additional funding that it wants in the bill that includes language allowing construction of a southern border wall beyond the area currently authorized and funded, among many other items. The Administration is assuming a CR runs through mid-December but Democratic House leaders have suggested a CR that ends before Thanksgiving.”

Fun stuff.

Other News. Last week Congresswoman Susan Davis, a Democrat from California who serves on the House education committee, announced she won't run for reelection next year. Davis chairs the subcommittee overseeing higher education, and has at times in the past spoken out at hearings on the lack of sufficient funding support for adult education.

Jeff

Jeff Carter
Cell: (202) 374-4387 | @jeffcrtr

Senior Policy Advisor
National Coalition for Literacy
http://www.national-coalition-literacy.org/
mailto:jcarter@literacypolicy.org
Immediate Past President, Committee for Education Funding

Executive Director
Physicians for Social Responsibility
1111 14th St, NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20005
http://www.psr.org/ | mailto:jcarter@psr.org

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Thanks for the update, Jeff. Here's the link to the full Roll Call article, for those who are interested: http://www.rollcall.com/news/policy/border-wall-other-disputes-sidetrack-senate-spending-work Deborah ---- On Wed, 11 Sep 2019 00:26:02 -0400 Jeff Carter <mailto:jcarter@literacypolicy.org> wrote ---- Update: The Senate Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee markup of the FY 2020 funding bill, scheduled for Tuesday, “collapsed in a partisan spat over abortion policy” according to Roll Call, and was cancelled. No new date was set. Jeff On Sep 9, 2019, at 5:49 PM, Jeff Carter <mailto:jcarter@literacypolicy.org> wrote: Here is the update I promised last week! — Jeff FY 2020 Appropriations. The Senate is moving forward with their appropriations markups this week. Tomorrow the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee will mark up its bill at 10am and the Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee will mark up its bill at 11:30am. The Senate will then zoom ahead — bypassing the subcommittees for both the State-Foreign Operations bill and the Energy and Water bills — and get those two bills plus the Defense and Labor-HHS-Education bill marked up in full Committee on Thursday. The Senate Appropriations Committee is also slated to vote Thursday on the allocations for each of the 12 subcommittee — i.e. the total they can spend. CEF expects this will be a contentious markup (fun!) because Democrats will not be satisfied with the allocation of non-defense discretionary (NDD) funding. That would be my read as well. Most importantly, CEF has been told that Labor-HHS-Education may not get as much of an allocation as Democrats want. From CEF’s latest update: “Last year the bills had bipartisan support, and neither side offered ‘poison pill’ policy riders during committee debate. That may not be the case this year, although when Congress negotiated the budget agreement this summer that raised the discretionary caps, there was an informal agreement reached not to push such policy riders on the appropriations bills.” We’ll see. Anyway, expectations are (I think I’ve warned everyone about this all summer) that the Senate Labor-HHS-Education bill will have significantly less funding than the House bill, because (a) the total amount of NDD funding for all twelve bills is less than the total the House assumed this spring; (b) the Senate is reportedly preparing to use a significant chunk of the NDD increase for border wall funding; and (c) the cap agreement provided less funding for the biennial census outside the caps, which may mean they will reach into more NDD for the census than the House had assumed when they passed their bill. Why is this important? Less funding appropriated by the Senate for Labor-HHS-Education means a strong possibility that the increase in funding for adult education in the House bill will not show up in the Senate bill. Not because the Senate has anything particularly against adult ed, but because they have less money money to play with - I expect many of the increases proposed in the House bill not to make it into the Senate bill. CEF says not to expect the Senate Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee to release bill text or report language explaining the funding levels for each program tomorrow. More likely we’ll see one of those press releases they like to send out that highlights certain aspects of their bill. But not all the details. What happens Thursday? Again I’ll let CEF explain: “…Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Shelby (R-AL) has talked of packaging the Defense, Labor-HHS-Education, and possibly other bills together for Senate floor consideration. Based on Thursday’s announced markup, it’s likely that he plans to bring a package of all four bills to the Senate floor the week of September 16. That will only occur if there is support from 60 Senators – something that might not happen if the funding levels in the Labor-HHS-Education bill are lower than what Democrats support. The House has passed 10 of the 12 appropriations bills, and is now planning to debate an extension of current funding – a continuing resolution, or ‘CR’ – the week of September 16. That is an acknowledgement that Congress will not have passed final versions of all government funding bills by the September 30th expiration of current funding. But even passing a CR may not be easy or straightforward; the Administration has reportedly submitted of ‘anomalies’ for additional funding that it wants in the bill that includes language allowing construction of a southern border wall beyond the area currently authorized and funded, among many other items. The Administration is assuming a CR runs through mid-December but Democratic House leaders have suggested a CR that ends before Thanksgiving.” Fun stuff. Other News. Last week Congresswoman Susan Davis, a Democrat from California who serves on the House education committee, announced she won't run for reelection next year. Davis chairs the subcommittee overseeing higher education, and has at times in the past spoken out at hearings on the lack of sufficient funding support for adult education. Jeff Jeff Carter Cell: (202) 374-4387 | @jeffcrtr Senior Policy Advisor National Coalition for Literacy http://www.national-coalition-literacy.org/ mailto:jcarter@literacypolicy.org Immediate Past President, Committee for Education Funding Executive Director Physicians for Social Responsibility 1111 14th St, NW, Suite 700 Washington, DC 20005 http://www.psr.org/ | mailto:jcarter@psr.org _______________________________________________ National Coalition for Literacy Members mailing list mailto:Members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org To unsubscribe: http://lists.national-coalition-literacy.org/mailman/listinfo/members_lists.national-coalition-literacy.org _______________________________________________ National Coalition for Literacy Members mailing list mailto:Members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org To unsubscribe: http://lists.national-coalition-literacy.org/mailman/listinfo/members_lists.national-coalition-literacy.org

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