Mikulski, Rogers ask budgeters for appropriations spending caps
October 31, 2013 | 04:53 PM
Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., and House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers, R-Ky., today urged the leaders of the budget conference committee to make setting discretionary spending caps for the 2014 and 2015 fiscal years their first priority.
In a letter sent to the chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate Budget Committees, Mikulski and Rogers said it is urgent that they arrive at an overall discretionary number (302(a)) for both the House and the Senate to use in drafting annual appropriations legislation.
Because the December 13 budget conference completion date would leave only a month to conference and pass the 12 annual appropriations bills, Mikulski and Rogers requested that the conferees strive to set this topline number by November 22, saying additional time to work on these critical bills would result in a “much better product,” the appropriations leaders said in a news release.
In a letter sent to the chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate Budget Committees, Mikulski and Rogers said it is urgent that they arrive at an overall discretionary number (302(a)) for both the House and the Senate to use in drafting annual appropriations legislation.
Because the December 13 budget conference completion date would leave only a month to conference and pass the 12 annual appropriations bills, Mikulski and Rogers requested that the conferees strive to set this topline number by November 22, saying additional time to work on these critical bills would result in a “much better product,” the appropriations leaders said in a news release.
