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Volume 5, Issue 5
June 12, 2008
This Week in Congress
The House and Senate are in session this week. The House appropriators began marking up Fiscal Year 2009 spending bills on Wednesday with the House Homeland Security Subcommittee and the Interior-Environment Subcommittee working on their bills first. Both of these bills are expected to be approved later this summer by the full Appropriations Committee. However, there is likely to be a battle between the President and Congress over all spending bills which will result in appropriations bills not being settled until after the election or even later.
In this Issue:
APPROPRIATIONS
- President may veto war supplemental (FY 2008) and Medicaid bill
· Congress passes FY 2009 Budget Resolution
- House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor-HHS-Education to begin markup
- NBIRTT testifies on behalf of DVBIC programs to Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense
OTHER LEGISLATION
- Senate working on legislation to prevent Medicare cuts for physician services
- NASHIA supports negotiated language between the disability and business communities that is being recommended to Congress with regard to ADA
ADMINISTRATION
- NASHIA signs on to CCD letter regarding Administration on Developmental Disabilities proposed rule
- (OSERS) announces a notice of proposed priorities for the Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects and Centers Program, comments due June 30.
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