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House to vote on spending package to avert shutdown: Live coverage
by The Hill staff - 03/06/24 9:02 AM ET
The House on Wednesday is slated to vote on a package of six fiscal year 2024 spending bills, the first full-year bills to come up for a vote more than five months into the fiscal year.
The measure is expected to come up under a suspension of the rules, denying conservatives the chance to sink it on a procedural vote, and looks likely to pass.
But conservatives are expressing outrage over the price tag, the exclusion of a number of policy priorities, the packaging of six bills together and the decision to bring it up under suspension. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has endorsed the legislation.
Republicans are scheduled to hold a meeting this morning, with votes to follow in the afternoon.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4511212-spending-package-shutdown-house-live-coverage/
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Earmarks agreed to in $460B must-pass spending bill to avoid government shutdown
Ultra-conservative Republicans are railing against the 605 pages of earmarks that will be included in a $460 billion spending package to fund six agencies of government that will come up for a vote on Wednesday.
The earmarks have already caused scandal within the Senate, where Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman's office rescinded support for a $1 million earmark for an LGBTQ center in Pennsylvania that hosts Bondage parties.
The funding caused a backlash on social media, prompting Fetterman, who was long one of the staunchest pro-LGBTQ lawmakers in the Keystone State, to have the earmark removed.
Public housing residents in Democratic Rep. Nanette Barragan’s California district will get $1 million for an electric vehicle car share thanks to her.
Alabama state route 167 will get $20 million thanks to GOP Sen. Katie Britt.
The NAACP headquarters in Baltimore will get $500,000 thanks to Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.
A boy scout camp, Camp Maluhia, will get $1 million*for a new dining hall thanks to Sen. Brian Schatz.
Rep. Greg Steube, a Republican of Florida, will get $190,000 for a ‘shark repellent study’ in Sarasota
Angoon, Alaska, a town of 349 people, will get $3 million for landfill and waste management improvement, as requested by Murkowski.
Chattanooga, Tennessee will get $6.4 million to ‘support’ 1.3 miles of trails on the Alton Park Connector, thanks to Republican Rep. Chuck Fleischmann.
The Drummond Culinary Academy in Monterey, California will get $1 million thanks to Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren.
An opera house in Vergennes, Vermont will get $500,000 to improve accessibility, thanks to Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and the under-3,000-person-town of Berlin, Vermont will get $1.6 million for pedestrian infrastructure in the town center.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., was particularly successful at getting funding for projects in his state ... included in the bill with eight projects included - $5 million for a pedestrian overpass at Coastal Carolina University,
$7 million for ‘economic development’ of Charleston County,
$6 million for the Saluda Grade rail trail on South Carolina,
$10 million for an ROTC facility at the University of South Carolina,
$2 million for public land improvement and $2 million for Ramsey Grove State Park improvement, and $750,000 for waterline and fire safety improvement in Beaufort.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13164347/earmarks-spending-bill-millions-gay-bdsm-parties-shark-repellent-study-shocking.html