The Senate Appropriations Financial Services Subcommittee approve...
The Senate Appropriations Financial Services Subcommittee approved a bill Wednesday that would fund the FCC at $335.8 million in FY 2010, the same as the president’s request. The bill was approved by voice vote with debate centered on agencies…
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other than the FCC, whose appropriation is part of the bill’s overall $46.5 billion, with $24.4 billion in discretionary spending and $22.1 billion in mandatory spending. The next step is consideration by the full Senate Appropriations Committee. House and Senate leadership are making a determined push to pass appropriations bills for FY 2010, avoiding the need to pass a continuing resolution as has been the practice in recent years. The House Appropriations Committee approved its Financial Services spending bill late Tuesday. The House bill does not include a $25,480 line item for universal service fund Inspector General audits that were in the FY 2009 bill because there is “ample carryover available” in funds, according to a committee press release. The bill also lists under “program reductions” a line item for $19,000 for the DTV transition, which it said is “largely completed.”